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Quotes About Action

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum
~ Sir Walter Scott
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
~ William James
Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart.
~ Old Chinese Proverb
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life
~ Eugene Delacroix
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
~ Samuel Johnson
There's no time in life to be in neutral.
~ Unknown
Always do what you are afraid to do.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~ Anais Nin
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
~ Jean Paul Richter
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman
We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
~ Jodi Rell
While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.
~ Unknown
Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.
~ Darren L Johnson
Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
~ Carly Fiorina
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~ Anne Frank
Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.
~ Thomas Carlyle
No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living
~ Winston Churchill
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
~ Tom Peters
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song.
~ Charles Kingsley
There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
~ Napoleon Hill