Quotes About Action

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you, death stands at your elbow; make the most of your minute, and be good for something while it is in your power.

And if not now, when?

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Seize time by the forelock.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Tomorrow life is too late: live today.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.