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Quotes About Action

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
~ Aesop
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
~ Andre Gide
You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When you're willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.
~ Ani DiFranco
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"
~ Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.
~ Anthony D. Barnosky
Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.
~ Austin O'Malley
Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.
~ Benjamin De Hoyos
I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
~ Bill Gates
And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?
~ Candace Bushnell
Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.
~ Carl Jung
Today's a great day to change a life. Starting with yours.
~ Robin Sharma
Do your best. And then let life do the rest.
~ Robin Sharma
Best way to learn how life works is to have the guts to truly go out and live it!
~ Robin Sharma
As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.
~ Ron Perlman
Most of the reason we don't do things is because we're afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.
~ Sara Blakely
Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
~ Ted Rall
The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Instead of just letting life happen, I'm going to make it happen for me.
~ Denis Waitley
Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?
~ Ingrid Weir
The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.
~ Laozi
Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.
~ Mark Lawrence
Causes and conditions" is just another way of expressing the word "karma." Merit is any karmic activity that takes you closer to the realization of truth, toward love and compassion.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day.
~ E. B. White