Quotes About Action

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Dream all you will, dare all you can, and do all you must.

Dream with both eyes open, both ears listening, and both hands working.

Saying 'I love you' only takes seconds, but proving it takes a lifetime.

The greatest dreamers have the greatest ideas. The greatest doers have the greatest achievements.

The higher the thoughts the greater the deeds.

Warriors achieve more than worriers.

If you don't do something you will simply get overwhelmed by something happening.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come of it.

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've doing something awful. And your life is changed forever.

We can't be spectators our whole lives, right? At some point we have to take a risk. Step into the action.

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've done something awful. And your life is changed forever.

It was so easy. A slight curl of his right pointer finger and a man's life was gone forever.

Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.

Confine your imagination. Do not lose yourself to dangerous daydreams. Do not sit and ponder and dwell on a life you are not living. Do something active. Exercise. Work harder. Answer your emails. Fill your diary with harmless social activities. By doing, we stop ourselves imagining. And imagining for us is a fast-moving car heading toward a cliff.

Crying releases stress hormones. Swearing increases pain tolerance. Fury can motivate us into action. Feel what you feel. Silence and smiles aren't the only way to respond to pain. Sometimes it is good to howl.

Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching news.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try . . .

Reading is love in action.

That is what the taste of blood does. It takes away the gap between thought and action.To think is to do. There is no unlived life inside you as the air speeds past your body, as you look down at the dreary villages and market towns...

You must never wait in pain,' said the specialist, or words to that effect. It was a message I would think of years later when I was suicidal. 'You must see to it straight away. It doesn't go away by pretending it isn't there.

How to get out of bed Wake up. Pick up phone. Stare at phone for 72 minutes. Sigh. Get out of bed. Alternatively, once in a while, try skipping stages two to four.