Quotes About Action

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

You do not find the happy life. You make it.

Life isn't about plans it's about results.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Don't be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Life is about making right things and going on.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target