Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.

— Omid Banyasad

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

— Shannon L. Alder

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

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try, and we lose, then it's all your fault.

— Orson Scott Card

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I've never had a knack for the active life. I've always taken wrong steps that no one else takes; I've always had to make an effort to do what comes naturally to other people. Furthermore, I've always wanted to achieve what others have achieved almost without wanting it. Between me and life there were always sheets of frosted glass that I couldn't tell were there by sight or by touch; I didn't live that life or that dimension. I was the daydream of what I wanted to be, and my dreaming began in my will: my goals were always the first fiction of what I never was.

— Fernando Pessoa

I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.

— Sara Baume

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

— Eric Lowitt

In action is the worst action of human beings!

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Inaction is the worst action of human beings!

— Mehmet Murat ildan