Quotes About Action

You don't get a life until you make one worth living.

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it.

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!

You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.