Quotes About Action

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

On Climate Change:) We know not only what we need to do, we have the capacity to do it. It is simply that we are not doing it. So that's one hope.

She knew where it would all lead, what it always led to in human beings—a decision about what to do. What are we going to do? Where do we go from here? How do we move forward? What is our mission now? As if purpose could solve everything, could take the outlines of what was missing and by sheer will invoke it, make it appear, bring it back to life.

How could a superstition be true? Maybe "superstition" was what snuck into the gaps, the cracks, when you worked in a place with falling morale and depleted resources. Maybe superstition was what happened when your director went missing in action and your assistant director was still mourning the loss. Maybe that was when you fell back on spells and rituals, the reptile brain saying to the rest of you, "I'll take it from here. You've had your shot.

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In the absence of certainty about what is best, in the presence of someone who is needy and vulnerable, there is a compelling urge for us to do something.

A vision without execution is an hallucination.

There are times in world history when it is far wiser to act than to hesitate," and "there is some risk involved in action—there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

an old attitude quote by Aldous Huxley, "It's not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you.

Silence and inaction equals death.

Never be satisfied with inaction. Question and redefine your purpose to attain progress.