Quotes About Action

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Decide who you are and what your goals entail - then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

If we don't do anything to change the lives of our people and our country, we live a vain life

Dreams are what gives us insight into what may be if we have the get up and go to do it.

If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.

There is only One Man Playing your Game, You!

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling—that excitement, that fire—to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)