29 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Action

Orson Scott Card quotes on action

16. At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: the end of the world. He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

67. Remember: the enemy's gate is down.

93. He is innocent of wrong-doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other and go on. It was a good decision, and [she] was proud of it. The trouble was, she couldn't carry it out

136. Never mind that the rules are stupid and counterproductive. I broke them.

148. I desire [belief] enough to act as if I believed, maybe that's what faith is. Or deliberate insanity.

196. Failing to try and stop a murder that you might easily stop - how is that not murder?

214. I know it as much as anyone knows anything. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

302. Know, think, choose, do.

306. My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

362. If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

380. You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told. So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person. And I am a good person.

442. Today, I saw a spark of decency. Lets blow on that spark and give it fuel

480. Clever boys. They'll do it, if we give them half a chance. They will do it

490. Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice

586. It makes people willing to act according to what they believe. To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps...loosen them up

594. [He] had somehow grown up with a belief that unfairness was to be, not endured, but corrected. So when he saw injustice, he corrected it

654. That's what's eating you alive. That you aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly

699. This is a really terrible dream, and I really ought to wake up and end it. And so I did

782. Tagiri fears the moral ambiguity in something that she knows she must do. She cannot live with not doing it, and yet fears she cannot live with doing it, either. So conceals it from herself in order to proceed with what she must do

796. Good people do not let others suffer needlessly

800. There's always hope:.even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity

852. What a heavy burden to bear Heaviest because there's nothing I can do Then it's not your burden, is it? The opposite is true. The burden is heavier precisely because I can't do anything about it

878. What are you laughing at? Life. And you' : 'It has no meaning for me. But it means something to you. We say that we are happy because we have hope, but it's a lie. We have no hope. You're the only person I've known in my life who had hope, lake-drinker. So leave here. This is a cemetery, leave here and you can save the world. You can, you know. Or if you can't, no one can

907. We haven't the power to change men's hearts. We're not responsible. It isn't our fault. Your hands are clean aren't they? Out here where the sun keeps everything pure. But you're not pure! Because if you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, the you are guilty. It is your fault. We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them

960. Why are you here? Because when I get the answers to my questions, I want to be able to act on them immediately

1009. You had no choice No, but you'd be amazed at how often people who have no choice act as if they had one, and lose everything because they could not bear to do what had to be done

1048. Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. (Treasure Box)

1060. Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. -Ender's Game

1061. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon. -Children of the Mind