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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Never confuse Motion with Action.
— Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
— Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
— Dorothy Day
Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.
— R.A. Salvatore, The Halfling's Gem
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
— Alfred Adler
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
— Edward Everett Hale
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
— Pablo Picasso
Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.
— Julie Anne Peters, Far from Xanadu
To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.
— Paulo Coelho
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
— Alfred Tennyson
He loved you.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?
— Robert Cormier, After the First Death
I darted away from Geir and jmped through the gaping hole in the wall Will's body had made. The settling dust choked me, but I made it through and ran to Will. He was struggling to his feet, leaning heavily on his sword as the point dug into the cold ground. When I reached him, I dropped my swords and wrapped my arms around his chest."I've got you," I said, helping him lift his torso the rest of the way up. I heard a sickening snap in his chest as he groaned, and I knew something was broken. He buried his face into my shoulder and growled in pain.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire
We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.
— Ming-Dao Deng, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.
— Susan Sontag
You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
— Florence Nightingale
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen
— Horace Mann
I huffed out a deep breath. “It’s something huge, isn’t it?” Beezle nodded. “Yup.” There was a sound of several limbs splashing in the water. “Is it all squishy and tentacly?” “Yup.” “I hate my life,” I said, and as I turned I conjured a ball of nightfire and threw it.
— Christina Henry, Black Night
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing
—  a very serious thing indeed.
To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?
— Charles Fuller
Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
— Martin Luther
Ivar grabbed hold of my shoulders, swung me into a strung-up fishing net, and then smashed me into a set of shelves. Clutter rained down on me, and I fought my way to the surface, clawing free of the net. Ivar's fingers curled around my shirt and lifted me until I was eye level with her."I'm going to enjoy killing you," she sneered. "And when you come back, I'll enjoy killing you again. If the Enshi doesn't eat your soul, I'll gladly eat your heart."Instead of replying, I stabbed her in the gut with a Khopesh. Her eyes bulged and she dropped me. I pulled the flaming sword out and slashed, but she caught my wrist before my blade could catch her skin, and she hissed, pulling her lips back viciously."Wrong move." Her flesh healed shut with only an ugly marbled scar left behind. She lashed her black power at me, striking me across the chest like a whip, and I staggered back. I shook off the blow and saw her lunge for me through the smoky remains of her attack. My own power detonated in a deafening explosion of white and collided with her. It blew her through the cabin, and she crashed through the wall and flew back out on the other side of the deck in a storm of fiberglass and steel.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire
As the sun rules the day and the moon governs the night, so too, we are connected by: the air that we breathe, light that we see and the darkness that follows. Life is too short to waste it on disagreements. Surely, we can all agree to disagree. So let us find a common ground, form a union and spread joy, happiness and freedom around the world for the benefit of you, me and the future generations to come. 
— Raymond Beresford Hamilton, Identity Assumption
You only truly believe that which moves you to action.
— Douglas Cheney
God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.
— Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-day and it would be indistinguishable from the one Wyatt Earp wore when he was the Marshal of Dodge City. It is the oldest hand-gun in the world, without question the most famous and, if efficiency in its designated task of maiming and killing be taken as criterion of its worth, then it is also probably the best hand-gun ever made. It is no light thing, it is true, to be wounded by some of the Peacemaker’s more highly esteemed competitors, such as the Luger or Mauser: but the high-velocity, narrow-calibre, steel-cased shell from either of those just goes straight through you, leaving a small neat hole in its wake and spending the bulk of its energy on the distant landscape whereas the large and unjacketed soft-nosed lead bullet from the Colt mushrooms on impact, tearing and smashing bone and muscle and tissue as it goes and expending all its energy on you.In short when a Peacemaker’s bullet hits you in, say, the leg, you don’t curse, step into shelter, roll and light a cigarette one-handed then smartly shoot your assailant between the eyes. When a Peacemaker bullet hits your leg you fall to the ground unconscious, and if it hits the thigh-bone and you are lucky enough to survive the torn arteries and shock, then you will never walk again without crutches because a totally disintegrated femur leaves the surgeon with no option but to cut your leg off. And so I stood absolutely motionless, not breathing, for the Peacemaker Colt that had prompted this unpleasant train of thought was pointed directly at my right thigh.Another thing about the Peacemaker: because of the very heavy and varying trigger pressure required to operate the semi-automatic mechanism, it can be wildly inaccurate unless held in a strong and steady hand. There was no such hope here. The hand that held the Colt, the hand that lay so lightly yet purposefully on the radio-operator’s table, was the steadiest hand I’ve ever seen. It was literally motionless. I could see the hand very clearly. The light in the radio cabin was very dim, the rheostat of the angled table lamp had been turned down until only a faint pool of yellow fell on the scratched metal of the table, cutting the arm off at the cuff, but the hand was very clear. Rock-steady, the gun could have lain no quieter in the marbled hand of a statue. Beyond the pool of light I could half sense, half see the dark outline of a figure leaning back against the bulkhead, head slightly tilted to one side, the white gleam of unwinking eyes under the peak of a hat. My eyes went back to the hand. The angle of the Colt hadn’t varied by a fraction of a degree. Unconsciously, almost, I braced my right leg to meet the impending shock. Defensively, this was a very good move, about as useful as holding up a sheet of newspaper in front of me. I wished to God that Colonel Sam Colt had gone in for inventing something else, something useful, like safety-pins.
— Alistair MacLean, When Eight Bells Toll
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
— William Sloane Coffin Jr., Credo
Oh thank God, please you have to help me!” begged the human. “She tied me up, she wants to kill me!”I arched a brow. “Is that so?”“She’s insane!”I folded my arms across my chest. “Well, the good news is, she’s totally sane. The bad news is my fiancée here is a crazy, homicidal bitch and she wants to kill you.
— Suzanne Wright, Here Be Sexist Vampires
Is this seat taken?"	The deep, gravelly voice jolted Noelle from her blood-thirsty thoughts. When she laid eyes on the man it belonged to her breath caught in her throat.	She blinked, wondering if maybe she'd dreamed him, but then he flashed her a captivating grin and she realized that he must be real - her mind wasn't capable of conjuring up a smile this heart-stoppingly gorgeous.	A pair of vivid blue eyes watched her expectantly as she searched for her voice.	"There are lots of other seats available," she finally replied, gesturing to the deserted tables all around them.	He shrugged. "I don't want to sit anywhere but here."	She moistened her suddenly dry lips. "Why?"	"Because none of those other seats are across from you," he said simply.
— Elle Kennedy, Midnight Action
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
— Mary Renault, The King Must Die
Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!!
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.
— Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room
…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. ""What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?
— Jesse Ball, The Curfew
Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)
— Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
— William James
America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should be. The idea involved freedom, equality, justice, and the pursuit of happiness; nowadays most of us probably could not describe it a lot more clearly than that. The truth is, it always has been a bit of a guess. No one has ever known for sure whether a country based on such an idea is really possible, but again and again, we have leaped toward the idea and hoped. What SuAnne Big Crow demonstrated in the Lead high school gym is that making the leap is the whole point. The idea does not truly live unless it is expressed by an act; the country does not live unless we make the leap from our tribe or focus group or gated community or demographic, and land on the shaky platform of that idea of a good country which all kinds of different people share.This leap is made in public, and it's made for free. It's not a product or a service that anyone will pay you for. You do it for reasons unexplainable by economics--for ambition, out of conviction, for the heck of it, in playfulness, for love. It's done in public spaces, face-to-face, where anyone is free to go. It's not done on television, on the Internet, or over the telephone; our electronic systems can only tell us if the leap made elsewhere has succeeded or failed. The places you'll see it are high school gyms, city sidewalks, the subway, bus stations, public parks, parking lots, and wherever people gather during natural disasters. In those places and others like them, the leaps that continue to invent and knit the country continue to be made. When the leap fails, it looks like the L.A. riots, or Sherman's March through Georgia. When it succeeds, it looks like the New York City Bicentennial Celebration in July 1976 or the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963. On that scale, whether it succeeds or fails, it's always something to see. The leap requires physical presence and physical risk. But the payoff--in terms of dreams realized, of understanding, of people getting along--can be so glorious as to make the risk seem minuscule.
— Ian Frazier, On the Rez
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
— Jesse Ball, The Curfew
We are the result of our mere actions. What we do, we become.
— Santosh Kalwar
Hope you didn't bring any spiders into the van with you,' Simon put in. 'Hey, I'm thinking we could take you back outside and hose you down, just to make sure. You'd definitely smell better if we did, which, I mean, bonus.' Jeremy scraped both hands through his hair again, then beat them clean against his thighs. 'Believe me, Simon, if we had access to a garden hose, I'd be the first to turn it on myself. I feel foul.''Hate to break it to you, Archer, but that feeling is not lying to you,' Simon said with mild relish.
— M. Chandler, High Fidelity
...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me.""You don't know that.""Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.
— Carl Hiaasen, Sick Puppy
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
— Tim Wise, Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.
— Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
— Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this
— Seth Tucker, Friedkin's Curse: A Werewolf Tale of Terror
…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
Life is meant to be lived in 'the zone', not the stands.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.
— Sharon Gannon, Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Path to Greater Health and Happiness
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
— Jim Rogers, A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing
I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into a picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when people do anything.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Back the fuck off fluffy!
— Seth Tucker, Friedkin's Curse: A Werewolf Tale of Terror
Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?
— Shaun Tan
My relief dissipates as James Blunt's yowling voice is overwhelmed by the scream of locking brakes:eieeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... My head lurches into darkness.
— Andrew J. Keir, Bloody Flies
There's no time like the present to love deeply, claim our power and live our purpose!
— Kristi Bowman
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
— Immanuel Kant
The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?
— Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.
— Ming-Dao Deng, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.
— Jeff Lindsay, Dexter By Design
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
— Alice Koller
Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose the poverty of his general ideas; he never permits the conversation to move toward philosophical principles. Men of his type so dread all deliberation that they glory in the practice of the instantaneous decision. They think they are saving themselves from irresolution; in reality they are sparing themselves the contemplation of all the consequences of their acts. Moreover, in this way they can rejoice in the illusion of never having made a mistake; for act follows so swiftly on act that it is impossible to reconstruct the past and say that an alternative decision would have been better. They can pretend that every act was forced on them under emergency and that every decision was mothered by necessity
— Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to this topic, the very two questions that led them to deal with the ethical problem: 'How can I be good?' and 'How can I do something good?' Instead they must ask the wholly other, completely different question: 'What is the will of God?
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, 21 Days to Better Balance: Find More Balance in a Busy World
The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone?
— Jesse Ball, The Curfew
Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Don't confuse activity with action.
— Mark Sanborn, The Encore Effect: How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do
Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests.
— Ludwig von Mises
Who is this man?''Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.''No? Spelt like Yes?''That's right.
— Ian Fleming, Doctor No
Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.
— Colin M. Morris, Mankind My Church
There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.
— Charles Williams, War in Heaven
Action triggers reaction. An object somehow responds when we observe it.We just assume that we do objective. In fact, unconsciously we only want to see some parts of the object which do not evoke the bitter memories of our past.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state.
— CrimethInc., Anarchy and Alcohol
Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.
— Carl Hiaasen
How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.
— Meg Rosoff, Just in Case
You are not who you say you are but rather what you do. Look at what it is that you do. If you don't like what you see: decide what you would like to see instead. Make those changes. Realize your potential. Harness your power. Seize every opportunity and do what it is that allows you to be true to yourself. Don't deny yourself your path. Only you can decide. Only you have that power. Only you are living your life.
— Akiroq Brost
When you act without feeling, that's the living death.
— Marty Rubin
There is sometimes a fine line between a cop and a criminal. What drives their personality may be the same, and they have simply chosen different roles and professions to call their own."Dr. ML Rapier PhD, Clinical Psychologist.
— M.L Rapier
It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.
— Marty Rubin
Because between doing something and doing nothing, this is all I can do.
— Félix J. Palma, The Map of Time
Action done totally brings relaxation
—  relaxation done totally brings more action.
To move forward, you must first take a step
— Chase S.M. Neill
To move forward, one must take the first step
— Chase S.M. Neill
Moving forward requires that one first take a step.
— Chase S.M. Neill
Moving forward first requires a step to be taken.
— Chase S.M. Neill
Progress first requires a step to be taken.
— Chase S.M. Neill
It is better to do something you like than to think about what you don't like.
— Marty Rubin
Fools are those who do not understand, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Take your actions carefully to avoid unwanted results
— Mayur Ramgir
Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore this world?Could we not be the generation who did what always should have been done? Who took the hard path so that humanity could be returned to the right path? Shall we not reexamine all that we choose to pursue and reconsider what will actually fulfill us?The past has been defined by what we have done
—  while the present and future are decided by what we choose to do.Shall we believe in what should be and go in search of it? Shall we believe in what needs to be and build it together?We become more by believing that we can be more. Life becomes better when we are willing to act on the belief that it can be better.To believe is to reach and reach is what we all must do.
You aren't battling your ability to stick to a diet, execute a business plan, repair a broken marriage and rebuild your life, hit your goals, or win over a bad manager- you are battling your feelings about doing it. You are more than capable of doing the work to change anything for the better, despite how you feel. Feelings are merely suggestions, ones you can ignore. To change you must do the same, you must ignore how you feel, and just do it anyway.
— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
If every action has an equal and opposite reaction, then the opposite of giving is receiving!!!!! Give maximum appreciation and you will equally receive!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
...putting your faith into action is not a passive exercise. You have to actively and willfully take the necessary steps to locate and move along the path God designed for you.
— Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action
I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.
— Marty Rubin
Take full responsibility of yourself, of your actions and of your inaction. It is only when you can truly and honestly face yourself that you can make any changes for the better. If you had a hand in it then you also have a hand in what you do going forward. Act on what you can do. Don't fret or stress over that which you can't control. Don't assign your responsibility as blame to others. Don't allow others to assign their responsibility as blame on to you. Be fair with yourself and others. Focus on positive momentum. Don't speak cruelly to yourself. Don't berate yourself. What is done is done. Focus instead on what you can do now, in this moment, moving forward. Empower yourself into change and betterment. It is up to you to advocate for your highest potential. That is the work you must do.
— Akiroq Brost
What you do today is more important than the things you collect.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
We don’t always like what’s good for us,” she said. “Especially at first.
— Erin Beaty, The Traitor's Kiss
You got one life, one chance , don't screw up. Put your fears behind your determination. Take the first step. Go for it my friend.
— Mayur Ramgir
Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough.
— Confucius, The Analects
There are consequence every action, whether evil or good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be cautious of every motive behind any action, because not every smile is genuine; sometimes it's just a grin.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Our fatal mistake is waiting to be motivated before we take action. Action motivates.
— Kyle Eschenroeder, The Pocket Guide to Action: 116 Meditations on the Art of Doing
The way we think , define the way we act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors
— Nobuhiro Watsuki, Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 06
In the world of old memories, there's no room for visitors
— Nobuhiro Watsuki
You know what happened to her, right?
— Lizzy Murphy
Eventually you are answerable to yourself for your deeds. Be good and do good!
— Harsh Agrawal, Affiliate Marketing For Dummies by ShoutMeLoud: Shortcut to unexplored digital monetization technique.
Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.
— Robert Radcliffe, Airborne
The idea that you are not good enough and that people will not like you is something that has been ingrained into your mind over many years. You have hundreds of experiences that you can call up as evidence of the fact that people will not like you -- and that things will not turn out well. These ideas are incredibly convincing. They compel us to hesitate, to shy away, and to avoid the situations -- and people -- that we find frightening. This sets up a reinforcing cycle, where we avoid reaching out, don't get good responses from others as a result, and then gain further evidence that we are not worthy. In order to truly overcome your social anxiety at a deep, gut level, you must repeatedly take bold action. It is only through trying something new, and with a different perspective, that you learn to see the world and the people around you in a different light.
— Aziz Gazipura, The Solution To Social Anxiety: Break Free From The Shyness That Holds You Back
The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
What better way to lose that hangover headache than get drunk again? Oh, the joys of being Canadian with socialized health care and legal drinking age of nineteen. After a year (officially) honing that skill, I imbibed at an Olympic level. The red wine on the modular coffee table gleamed in a shaft of sunlight like its position had been ordained by the gods. I snatched up the crystal decanter, sloshing the liquid into the glass conveniently placed next to it. Once in a while, a girl could actually catch a break. I fanned myself with one hand. The myriad of lit candles seemed a bit much for Ari’s romantic encounter, but wine drinking trumped curiosity so I chugged the booze back. My entire body cheered as the cloyingly-sweet alcohol hit my system, though I hoped it wasn’t Manischewitz because hangovers on that were a bitch. I’d slugged back half the contents when I saw my mom on the far side of the room clutch her throat, eyes wide with horror. Not her usual, “you need an intervention” horror. No, her expression indicated I’d reached a whole new level of fuck-up. “Nava Liron Katz,” she gasped in full name outrage.
— Deborah Wilde, The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
What’s-his-name had started out with all the promise of a wild stallion gallop, but he’d ended up more of a gentle trot. I didn’t know if the fault lay with the jockey or the ride, but it had been a long time since I’d seen a finish line.
— Deborah Wilde, The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
He had always been a middle-of-the-road sort. He had never submitted word for word to anyone's command, but neither had he passionately rebelled against anyone's advice. Depending upon the interpretation, this was the posture of a schemer or the strategy of a born vacillator. If he himself had been confronted with either of these charges, he could not have avoided wondering if they might not be true. But in large part, this was to be attributed neither to artifice nor to vacillation but rather to the flexibility of his vision, which allowed him to look in both directions at once. To this day, it was precisely this capacity that had always dampened his determination to advance singlemindedly toward a particular goal. It was not unusual for him to stand paralyzed in the midst of a situation. His posture of upholding the status quo was not the result of poverty of thought, but the product of lucid judgment; but he had never understood this truth about himself until he acted upon his beliefs with inviolable courage. The situation with Michiyo was precisely a case in point.
— Sōseki Natsume, And Then
The truth is, that in all cases a certain number at least seems to be necessary to secure the benefits of free consultation and discussion, and to guard against too easy a combination for improper purposes; as, on the other hand, the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
— James Madison, The Federalist Papers
The word of God is more powerful when put into action than when only spoken.
— Gift Gugu Mona
What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it. No matter how many teachings that you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma.
— Patrul Rinpoche
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a museum-quality specimen of the Yankee – self-righteous, ruthless, and self-aggrandizing.”--Dr. Clyde Wilson
— Dr. Clyde Wilson
Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!
— Stephen King
Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Manifestation without action is only a wish.
— Nanette Mathews
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
— A.C. Grayling
Mornings after sucked. Walks of shame were a necessary evil, but that didn’t mean I enjoyed shimmying back into the same trollop togs twice. I picked glitter out of my hair, then straightened my sequined top. I was officially decommissioning it. Multiple washings never quite managed to remove the lingering aura of bad decisions I made while wearing party clothes. My philosophy? Cross my fingers and hope for the most bang for the bucks spent later on new outfits.
— Deborah Wilde, The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal.
— Jeffrey Fry
Inaction is the worst action of human beings!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side.
— Marty Rubin
In action is the worst action of human beings!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ask yourself the question: If I don't do it, who will? If you find the answer is no one will do it, then do it yourself.
— Omar Saif Ghobash, Letters to a Young Muslim
Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _to do_. Action _may_ be hypocrisy, but being is the thing itself, and is the parent of action.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Direct action is not always the best way. It is a far greater victory to make another see through your eyes than to close theirs forever.
— Kriea/Darth Traya
Do as I do, not as I say -- observance often tells me more.
— Andy Harglesis
A return on time surpasses all investments.
— Andy Harglesis
Every time we face tests and trials, God is instigating us to action
— Sunday Adelaja
The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Do something new and expect new result.
— Sunday Adelaja
We have to do the right thing by ourselves because doing nothing is much worse.
— If I Wake
We have to be in the center of action in order not to end up on the sidelines
— Sunday Adelaja
When a true purpose refuses to breathe, it suffocates to its ebb and death!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Action means carrying out your plan to fruition, moving forward with projects, meeting and exceeding expectations.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
What do you think books will look like 50 years from now.
— M.    Scott, False Vengeance
Whoever acts right is rich in deed
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All of us will give an account to God about our life on earth, about our position and actions
— Sunday Adelaja
The prayers of Christians are in vain if they do not plan any corresponding actions
— Sunday Adelaja
I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions
— Sunday Adelaja
Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.
— Ian McGuire, The North Water
...The happy Warrior... is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath wrought upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: whose high endeavors are an inward light that makes the path before him always bright.
— William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior
There is a big difference between motion and action. Just because you get out of bed doesn't mean you are making progress. Taking action requires decisiveness, dedication, and clear direction.
— Farshad Asl
I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.
— Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy
If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.
— Orrin Woodward
Act. Procrastination costs money.
— Farshad Asl
It is not, how one thinks. Indeed, it is, how one executes that.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.
— Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
... A few centuries earlier... humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and if it was proved they really believed it. They still connected thinking with doing and were prepared to alter their way of life as the result of a chain of reasoning. But what with the weekly press and other such weapons, we have largely altered that... Man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous - that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Here's what I want you to learn from this: Never let someone answer a question for you. Jump in with anything at all to make sure hat you're the one talking. Say, 'That's an interesting question', or 'I'm glad you asked that question,' or 'Oh goody, my favorite subject.' Say anything that will guarantee that you're in the conversation about yourself and not out of it like a teenager standing next to her mother at a cocktail party. You must tell your own story, never let someone, even someone as familiar to you as your sister-in-law think she knows you better than you know yourself. She only sees what you do, she doesn't' see who you are inside. If I regret anything when I look back, it's how often I allowed people to think what they wanted to thing. I should've stopped them sort. I should've laughed at their assumptions. I should've hooted with laughter, 'Hoo hoo hoo,' and followed with twinkling, mischievous smile just to throw them off, just to keep them guessing,The problem is they watch what you do, who you love, how you cook, what you read and what you don't read, and they decide what it means, and sometimes you're not there to stop them, or you get the timing wrong. I've always wondered why people look so much to action for meaning. When people tell you a story, something that happened to them, something important, don't ask them what they did , ask them what they wanted to do, what they want to do is who they are. Actions are whispers compared to dreams.
— Alison Jean Lester, Lillian on Life
Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one’, must perform certain actions and instinctively shrinks from other actions, he transports the order of which he is the physiological representative into his relations with other human beings and with things. In a formula: his virtue is the consequence of his happiness…Everything good is instinct—and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ
I used to only write poetry
—  now I live it. I finally matured enough to starve my hypocrisy to death.
Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is important for me to focus on positive actions taken to heal instead of beating myself up over what I did wrong each day. It shifts my perspective, thus making my body and mind more hospitable places for healing and positive energy.
— Sharon E. Rainey, The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal
I will take all the action there is, and even if I fail and fail and fail and fail and fail, I know like I know, that the door to this opportunity will one day get weakened by the forces of my attempts, and breaks wide open for me to get in.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
— Dalai Lama XIV
What matters most right now, is what you do next.
— Akiroq Brost
Jena took a seat on the sofa, and Cole found himself with another dilemma. Should he sit next to her or take the other chair? Such a decision shouldn’t feel momentous, but it did. It felt as momentous as a choice between the past and the future.	It felt like a choice between friendship and maybe more than friendship.	He sat next to her on the sofa.
— Susannah Sandlin, Black Diamond
Sometimes, you have to just act, act in the right earnest way, without bothering about the results.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Fun and killing ain’t synonyms to regular folks, Zeus.”.
— Shay Rucker, On the Edge of Love
Look here, cousin,” Big Country’s drawled in the background. “This here’s a car. We just got off a plane, and no matter how fast you push this bitch, she ain’t gon’ fly, so believe me when I say, I refuse to die over some foolishness you call love, not today.
— Shay Rucker, On the Edge of Love
Swap out one of these men with the mute, and I’ll be right as rain,” Randy said from his spot near the kitchen entrance.“Thought we were besties,” Bride mumbled into the shot of rum she’d pilfered from Randy’s cabinet.
— Shay Rucker, On the Edge of Love
Mind what you mind. Do not just open the door of your mind to anything at all you don’t want to mind. Mind the things that get closer to your mind and mind your mind!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Do. Then talk. In that order.
— Sotero M Lopez II
JUST SHUT UP talking about what you're going to do and JUST DO IT! Then you can talk.
— Sotero M Lopez II
What I love is the span between 'Action' and 'Cut'. What I do in that span is what I love about my job".
— Kunal Karan Kapoor
Either offend or represent, don’t be a spectator.
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Enjoy good moments while they last, then make sure they're not the last
— Constance Friday
If you want to see what your truly committed to, look at your results.
— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserve to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?I what I did really so much worse than waht anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
It’s not the situation -the action that does matter, situations produce excuses, where the actions -the results.
— Praveen Chenna
If I want to 'f' a guy, I want to 'f' a guy.
— S.E. Jakes, Bound by Honor
Strength is not determined by the looks but through action.
— Gugu Mona
It's disheartening that most Christians will still miss Heaven because Christians today have forgotten that Heaven is meant for those who declare Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, then confirm that declaration with action.
— Gugu Mona
When you said we were clandestine I didn’t realize you meant literally underground, you could have warned me.
— Mark A. McCormick, The Remote Viewer
I’d follow you through the gates of hell.
— Mark A. McCormick, The Remote Viewer
do not be so quick to say "okay" it is alright to disagree with the action yet love the person.
— P.M. MATHIS
Patience is an action and a skill to be cultivated. It actually solves more problems that most other actions.
— John Bruna
If I want to fuck a guy, I want to fuck a guy.
— S.E. Jakes, Bound by Honor
When in doubt, check if your actions are aligned with your purpose.
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy, What You Seek Is Seeking You
The 'Righteous' are mightier than 'God.
— Shivish, The Unconquerable Heart: God's Fist
May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset
I always knew a good man should do no bad deeds, but it never occurred to me that a good man must do good deeds. He cannot just sit back and do nothing. He cannot just relax and let things happen around him. He must act or his faith is meaningless, mere words or thoughts.
— Aleksandra Layland, Ansgar: The Struggle of a People. The Triumph of the Heart.
Amateurs are fond of advising that all practical measures should be postponed pending carrying out detailed researches upon the habits of anophelines, the parasite rate of localities, the effect of minor works, and so on. In my opinion, this is a fundamental mistake. It implies the sacrifice of life and health on a large scale while researches which may have little real value and which may be continued indefinitely are being attempted… In practical life we observe that the best practical discoveries are obtained during the execution of practical work and that long academic discussions are apt to lead to nothing but academic profit. Action and investigation together do more than either of these alone.
— Ronald Ross, Researches on Malaria
There is a rationale for every action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita