Quotes About Action

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. You can't have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.

Life is short. Be of use.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.

If you don't go and do something in life, nothing happens.

If you hang around waiting for the right answer, you're going to be waiting all your life.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.