Quotes about Action

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: "What are you doing for others?" Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!