Quotes About Action

I'VE seen Steelheart bleed. I've seen him scream. I've seen him burn. I've seen him die in an inferno, and I was the one who killed him. Yes, the hand that pushed the detonator was his own, but I don't care—and have never cared—which hand actually took his life. I made it happen. I've got his skull to prove it.

If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.

I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

how often has "hope" been the reason someone refuses to move on and accept a realistic attitude? How often has "hope" caused more pain or delayed healing? How often has "hope" prevented someone from standing up and doing what needs to be done, because they cling to a wish for everything to be different?

You don't need to use your hand to Push," Gemmel grumbled at him. "Wastes time.

To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.

If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study.

Well, perhaps by one definition. But it seems that either one—good or evil—has to be pursued for it to be significant. People today … it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice. They act as their surroundings prepare them to act.

It was too late to change one's aim when the hammer was already falling. But it wasn't too late to straighten his back.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step.

We must go. Leave the Smedrys to do what they do best." "Save the world?" Grandpa asked. "Get into trouble?" Kaz asked. "Run around screaming?" I asked.

Like it or not, you are a part of the workings of this kingdom—and you produce effects even if you stay in bed. If you do nothing, then the problems are as much your fault as if you had instigated them.

Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men- only the things they want are different.

Run!" Tia yelled. Like I needed to be told.

The more she thought of it, the more that luck seemed the opposite of being awesome. One was something you did; the other was something that happened to you no matter what you did. Course

I didn't give you pewter just so you could live, Spook," Kelsier said, pointing. "I gave it to you so you could get revenge. Now, go!

que nadie ha lamentado nunca darle una sacudida de más, pero te garantizo que todo hombre lamenta darle una de menos».

Una excusa es lo que haces una vez cometida la acción, mientras que una justificación es lo que ofreces antes.

I find nothing more frightening than a man trying to do what he has decided is important. Very little in the world has ever gone astray - at least on a grand scale - because a person decided to be frivolous.

You can't have it both ways. You can't be powerless and totally at fault. Which is it?" I thought about that. "It's neither." "Right," FM said. "Some things are under your control, and others aren't. You do the best you can with what you have to work with. And that is what sets you apart—what you do with it.

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

The haze cleared. My finger twitched, but I had not pulled the trigger. A figure stood from a crouch in the dust; he had fallen from above. He wore a black coat-thin, like a lab coat-dark trousers, black boots, and a pair of goggles over his eyes.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can—what we do that books cannot is interpret.

You don't have the luxury of being bad at this. Don't complain. Change.