Quotes About Action

He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an industrious shooting of revolvers; and funny fat men who ate spaghetti.

They had something to do. They could escape from themselves.

Go. Run with it. Make trouble.

My nerves tingled with the sense of adventure. Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver, and, walking swiftly up the door, I looked in.

Tut! Tut!' cried Sherlock Holmes. 'You must act, man, or you are lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for despair.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum

GIVE US THE TOOLS AND WE WILL FINISH THE WORK

I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Don't wait for good things to happen. Do whatever you can, wherever, and however. You will be surprised when good things follow.

A writer who always has his characters "walk" is missing opportunities.

Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens.

The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

Stop explaining how impossible it is, stop making endless excuses, stop faffing around…and just do it!

Maybe this is karma.

Non ti colpevolizzare perché non conosci tutte le risposte. Non sempre è necessario sapere chi sei. Non è necessario avere il quadro completo, né sapere dove stai andando. A volte è sufficiente anche solo sapere cosa si farà dopo.

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

That will come when it comes; we must deal with all that lies before us. The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.

Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?