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Quotes About Action

Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Life helps those who help themselves.
~ Robin Sharma
Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.
~ Rusty Schweickart
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
~ Saint Augustine
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
~ Samuel Alexander
To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.
~ Samuel Parr
Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.
~ Sandra Cisneros
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
~ Seneca the Younger
I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.
~ Seth Rogen
We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?
~ Sheryl WuDunn
The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
~ Stephen Covey
Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.
~ Stephen Covey
Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.
~ Stephen Covey
Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.
~ Sundra Oakley
I just fight in my movies, never in real life.
~ Sylvester Stallone
If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.
~ Terry Brooks
You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.
~ Timothy Spall
I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.
~ Toks Olagundoye
If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.
~ Tom Rath
The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life.
~ Tony Robbins
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life
~ Veronica Roth
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
~ W. Somerset Maugham