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Quotes About Action

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.
~ Tim McGraw
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
~ Albert Einstein
My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever
~ James Marsters
Love is an act of courage.
~ Paulo Freire
Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.
~ Lou Reed
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
~ Immanuel Kant
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.
~ Bootsy Collins
My philosophy on running is, I don't dwell on it, I do it.
~ Joan Benoit
I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.
~ Mike Royko
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
~ Tom Robbins
To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
~ Aristotle
In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.
~ Frederick Lenz
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.
~ Alva Noe
The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.
~ George Harrison
We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.
~ Thomas Hanna
My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.
~ Elvis Presley
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
~ Ayn Rand
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Be the change that you want to see
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.
~ Garth Brooks