Quotes About Action

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life!

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.