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Quotes About Action

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
~ Ian Fleming
If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.
~ Clint Eastwood
If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
~ Kate Atkinson
I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it's impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.
~ Kate Winslet
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
~ Machado de Assis
It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.
~ Bob Harper
Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.
~ Dennis Green
I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.
~ Herb Kelleher
Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.
~ Thomas Dreier
I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.
~ Gabriel Orozco
I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.
~ George P. Shultz
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
~ George Santayana
How could I be out there and not do anything?
~ Jay-Z
Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.
~ Jim Rohn
Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You have to take calculated risks in life.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.
~ Bernie Glassman
I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.
~ Timothy Olyphant
First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
~ Napoleon Hill
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
~ Og Mandino
Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals other than right now
~ Rachael Bermingham
Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.
~ Richard Leider