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Quotes About Action

Life is not a noun, it's a verb.
~ Sam Harris
In no other sport must the spectator move.
~ John Updike
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
~ Mason Cooley
I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.
~ Willie Stargell
Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
~ Steve Sabol
When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.
~ Steve Yzerman
Morality is not a spectator sport.
~ Thomas Lickona
all about that action boss
~ Marshawn Lynch
Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then your body says "Who me?"
~ Joe DiMaggio
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
~ Lee Ann Womack
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it
~ Zhuangzi
The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.
~ Jack Black
If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!
~ Saulo Ribeiro
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.
~ Powell Clayton
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.
~ John F. Kennedy
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.
~ Eugenio Maria de Hostos
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
~ Patrick Henry
Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.
~ Dan Miller