Quotes About Action

My kick had landed on Bob's skull with force, jerking his head to the side. Bob's hands instinctively leapt off the steering wheel. The car veered sharply, sending Otto and me—and the gun—into a rolling heap. It was on.

There are certain injustices in this life you've got to do something about. You can't just say that you can't fight it, or it's too much trouble, or that you don't have the time or the effort, or that you can't win. Forget all that. Fight them all!

Er wusste in der Tat Besseres mit seiner Zeit anzufangen, als zu beten. Gebete machten die ganze Sache nur noch komplizierter. Und sie verärgerten die Götter.

Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, in which excessive consciousness negates action, which is at some distance from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

there's doubt in your mind, there's no doubt at all." In other words, if you know in your heart that an action is wrong, don't do it.

Ernie Savage rose to fire on three enemy soldiers only a few feet away only to find that his rifle was empty. Savage says: "I didn't know what to do, so I just said 'Hi' and smiled. All three looked at me in confusion, but by then I had slipped in a fresh magazine and sprayed them.

To him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin" ((NKJV)).

No señor, miedo de tener que enfrentarme a lo que no hice

her victim—of necessity she must put him away from her—he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense.

I kicked the man swiftly. Barefooted, I was surprised to see him fall back in real pain. I intended to kick his shin, but aimed too high.

Le courage, c'est savoir que tu pars battu, mais d'agir quand même sans s'arrêter

Je voulais que tu comprennes quelque chose, que tu voies ce qu'est le vrai courage, au lieu de t'imaginer que c'est un homme avec un fusil dans la main. Le courage, c'est savoir que tu pars battu, mais d'agir quand même sans s'arrêter. Tu gagnes rarement mais cela peut arriver.

Je t'ai déjà dit que si tu n'avais pas perdu ton sang-froid, je t'aurais quand même envoyé lui faire la lecture. Je voulais que tu comprennes quelque chose, que tu voies ce qu'est le vrai courage au lieu de t'imaginer que c'est un homme avec un fusil dans la main. Le courage, c'est savoir que tu pars battu, mais d'agir quand même sans s'arrêter. Tu gagnes rarement mais cela peut arriver.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The world is full of good ideas, but without passionate commitment, they are worth little and go nowhere.

When you have a plan put it into action instantly. Don't let it lie around and get stale and have other people start thinking about it themselves.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.

I move, therefore I am.

What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.