Quotes About Action

You have to try. Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

How does this keep happening to you?" David said. "Because I look," Stevie replied. "A lot of things happen when you go out and do them on purpose.

You want to play? Ellis yelled. All right, then! I played a lot of video games as a kid, bitches! There! Oliver yelled. That way! Toward Boulevard Périphérique. There! There! The car swerved abruptly to the right. Ginny heard Keith swear for a solid ten seconds.

Maybe he understood how terrifying it is to do the thing you meant to do.

I'm scared. To Nate's credit, he did not ask why she was scared, and he did not tell her not to be scared. Maybe he understood how terrifying it is to do the thing you meant to do.

Is that going to work? she said. We have to try. She nodded. She got that. You have to try. Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.

Something in the room had changed. My hand was on the floor, next to Stephen, but he wasn't as close to my hand as he had been. He had moved several inches over, toward the table. Just as I realized this, his arm shot out for the knife. In the next moment, he had rolled up on his knees and had Sadie caught in the crook of his arm. His face was pale, and he looked a bit shaken by the sudden movement. He was alive.

Much as I would have liked to, I couldn't hide upstairs forever. Sooner or later, I was going to have to come down and face the world.

he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

There was no action she could take against the men of undeined thought, of unnamed motives, of unstated purposes, of unspecified morality. There was nothing she could say to them - nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer? It was a realm she could not enter.

The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

If you intend to keep your word, don't talk about it, just do it.

We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape.

Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below.

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.

We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history." --Atlas Shrugged

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end.

before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people.

whatever we are, it's we who move the world and it's we who'll pull it through.

There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, non-property, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.