Quotes About Action

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

I believe in deeds, not words.

We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we? - Sandry after the pirate attack

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You're brave, to admit you don't know everything and then do something about it.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Maybe it takes a coward more courage—not less—to do and not do things. Perhaps cowards understand the world so much better than brave folk.

The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.

Tanaquil gently toed the peeve. I'll unfasten the window. Jump out to the lower roof and run. Stay and bite, said the peeve.

Have what you want, king, she sang at him. And then she threw something right at him.

When he had danced from her sight, Electra Chenti raised her own hand, which had struck him, and stretched it. Presently, she put it up to her lips, laid her mouth against it, held it to her.

Her voice was primitive, and he felt her surprising strength. She would protect him. Touched and set ablaze by her action, he found he was no longer concerned with Leopardo, indeed scarcely credited his existence in a universe that comprised, for this minute, only himself and Iulet.

She'd kicked Klein's ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall. He really should marry her.

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

Just write it!

Be sure that you do.

Walther PPK

Walther PPK peashooter of yours.

doing good required taking risks.

Remember, Caleb, words are weak instruments of love. They can do many things, but they do not carry the truth like your hands do. People need to be shown, not told.

His face softened and he spoke in the gentle voice she'd grown so accustomed to. "I'm sorry I had to do that to you. But fear has its reward.

letting go is something you do, not just talk about. Talking about forgiving changes nothing. Doing it changes everything, not just in you, but somehow in those around you. We are not healed alone.

If the U.S. government is going to collapse anyway, it behooves us to first replace it with something that can stand in its place. Unless we act, we'll have to deal with a post-collapse scenario, in which we'll have to fend off roving criminal gangs, hoodlums, predatory corporations, oppressive residual government entities, and an emboldened political right.

when you sow a thought, you reap an action. When you repeat an action, you develop a habit. When you maintain a habit, you create a character.