Quotes About Action

In fiction that has a higher aim, the credibility of every important action in the story is at risk unless the writer is confident that the motivation or ability of the character makes the action credible.

Who can be still while the muddy water settles? Who can remain still until the time comes for action?

U don't have to sit and watch it happen or workout, take a step to think bigger and dream beyond wild extremes, cause life is all about risk

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

Stories are my art and my solace. They could also be my weapons. Stories give more than facts. Stories touch the conscience and stimulate action. That is my motive and my goal, to put research and study and feeling into that cauldron called the novel.

i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.

You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

we cannot help how we feel, but we can choose whether or not to act upon those feelings.

If there's an aspect of your life that's making you unhappy and you can escape from it, why wait? Too many people stick around and try to improve things, which often means slogging your guts out to compensate for the deficiencies of others. Personally, I'm a fan of the discard: leave it; move on.

Algumas vezes você tem de ser corajosa e fazer algo que não se encaixa no padrão geral apenas para sacudir um pouco as coisas, para fazer acontecer.

Mademoiselle, if you had not intended it, it would not have happened," said Poirot. "Hands do not move unless minds make them move....

knowledge of character is essential to the solving of crime," I said. "Without knowing the motive, you can't solve anything, and without understanding character, motive is unknowable. I have also heard him say that no man can act in a way that is contrary to his own nature.

If she did not like her fate, it was up to her to change it.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

Finally, someone has to make a start. We only said and wrote what many people think. They just don't dare to express it.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.