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Quotes About Action

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life
~ Christopher Paolini
Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.
~ Gary Zukav
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.
~ George Mason
Life is a game, play it.
~ Mother Teresa
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
~ Stephen Ambrose
The strenuous life tastes better
~ William James
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
~ William James
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
~ William Arthur Ward
According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.
~ George Saunders
You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.
~ Joel Brown
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.
~ Roger Moore
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
~ Stephen Covey
You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
~ Taylor Momsen
Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
~ Nelson Mandela
She just happened to feel like it. Wasn't that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?
~ Richard Yates
My life is my argument.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.
~ Arianna Huffington
Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.
~ Bradley Cooper
It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.
~ Edward Snowden
It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.
~ Evangeline Booth
One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.
~ Jim Rohn