Quotes About Action

Pulling back the slide and cocking the gun

hunt you down and kill you myself. Chapter 18 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The call from Philippe Roussard's handler came in the middle of the night. "Do you have everything in place?" Roussard sat up in bed

Courage, though, wasn't the absence of fear. It was what you did in spite of it.

Absence of fear didn't make your brave; it was what you did in spite of being afraid. — Scot Harvath

Absence of fear didn't make you brave; it was what you did in spite of being afraid. — Scot Harvath

He removed the 9mm Heckler & Koch USP SD Herman had given him and spun a GEMTECH suppressor onto its threaded barrel. It was loaded with subsonic ammunition and he carried two extra magazines. If bullets started flying, though, that meant something had gone very wrong.

Carlton Group had been established to boldly do what the nation's politically correct, vote-chasing politicians and cowering cover-your-ass bureaucrats were too timid and too inept

Carlton signaled and merged into a faster-moving lane. "Jacobson gave us his file with everything on the

Speed, surprise, and overwhelming violence of action.

Within half a block the man was sweating. By the intersection, his clothes were sticking to his body. The Glock tucked behind his right hip was slick with perspiration. Guns, money, and a bunch of high-tech gear. Just like something out of a movie. Except it wasn't. This was real. Turning right, he headed into the large open-air market. It looked as if a car bomb packed with neon paint cans had detonated.

Scot Harvath wasn't trying to hide. He expected to be seen. That was the plan. Be brief. Be bloody. Be gone. There would be handwringing by the Austrians, of course. But the politics of the assignment weren't his concern. The White House had been crystal clear. Either the Europeans dealt with their problem, or the United States would

Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.

it sometimes happens that when one acts quickly and with great resolve, all the indecisiveness and doubt comes afterwards, when it is too late. So

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep, when I was supposed to speak, I was silent; when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

Cand ti se vor deschide in fata mai multe cai si nu vei sti pe care sa apuci nu alege la intamplare ci asaza-te si asteapta. Asteapta oricat e nevoie. Nu te misca nu spune nimic asculta-ti inima. Apoi cand o sa-ti vorbeasca ridica-te si urmeaza-i sfatul.

Detrás de la máscara de la libertad se esconde frecuentemente la dejadez, el deseo de no implicarse.

Vsako dejanje, tudi najneznatnejše utegne v sebi nositi skrivnost, nevidno seme, ki lahko vzkali, ?e ga sprejmeš.

El amor no conviene a los perezosos, para existir en plenitud exige gestos fuertes y precisos.

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever. In its place is something you have left behind … let it be something good.

We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.

A thought is like an unripened fruit that is not yet eaten by anyone. Ripening the fruit means bringing a positive thought into action. Many good thoughts die because they are not brought into action, so your good thoughts should definitely be brought into action.

To attain the purpose of life, it is necessary to do one's duties, whether one lives in the world or outside it. The path of renunciation and the path of action, though two diverse ways, are equally helpful for attaining self-emancipation. One is the path of sacrifice, the other the path of conquest.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.