5,384 Quotes About Action

We are what we do.

Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.

He was too explosive for her to touch him so intimately. It would lead to the wrong things. And places he'd banned himself from. As her protector, he had to stay away from her. That was how it worked. This, he could not stray from. Not again. Even if it killed him.

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.

They say in moments of great fear or desperation, a man will always make a choice—either to flee or face his enemy, but choice requires thought, and in the moment when you know for certain that death is stalking you with strides you cannot outrun, there is no time for thought. You do not choose. Like Betto, or Malchus, or Valens, you act, doing either one thing or the other.

Let your words merely reiterate what your actions have already stated.

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.