A list of quotes about action. I hope you enjoy it.

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we are unwilling to let our ideals cost us anything, our ideals aren't worth anything."- Zora Neal Hurston

"Use what talent you posses; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang but those than sang best."- Henry Van Dyke

"It is our choice of good or evil that decides our character, not our opinion about good or evil."- Aristotle

"You have enemies? Good. That means you stood up for something, sometime in your life."- Winston Churchill

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The paths fork and divide. With each step you take through Destiny's garden, you make a choice, and every choice determines further paths. However, at the end of a lifetime of walking, you might look back and see only one path stretching out, or look ahead, and see only darkness."- Neil Gaiman (Sandman)

"It is our choices... that show who we are far more than our abilities."- Albus Dumbldore (Chamber of Secrets)

"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."- Buckminster Fuller

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."- Samuel Johnson

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."- Edmund Burke

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are built for. - John Shedd

"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom"- Gandalf

"I criticize by creation- not by finding fault."- Cicero

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."- Mathatma Gandhi

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."- Albert Einstein

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think i have ended up where I needed to be."- Douglas Adams

"Once they eliminate the mindset that they can't do some things, humans become capable of anything, weather for good or evil."- Unknown

"Employ your time reading other men's writings so that you shall easily come by what others have laboured hard for." -Socrates

"Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up."- Jesse Jackson

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Remeber when you high school history teacher said that the course of human events changes 'cause of the deeds of great men? Well, the bitch was lying. Fuck Caesar, fuck Lincoln, fuck Gandhi. The world keeps moving 'cause of you and me, the anonymous. Revolutions get going 'cause there ain't enough bread. Wars happen over a game of checkers."- Augustus Hill (Oz)

"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."- Moliere

"A clever man commits no minor blunders."- Goethe

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."- Mark Twain

"You can pretend to be serious. You can't pretend to be witty."- Sacha Guitry

"The young to do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore attempt the impossible- and achieve it, generation after generation."- Pearl S. Buck

"A tower of nine stories begins with a heap of earth. The journey of a thousand li starts with a single step."- Lao Tzu

"None climbs so high as he who knows not where he is going."- Oliver Cromwell

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."- Susan Ertz

"A... sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."- Washington Irving

"Wherever books are burned, men also, in the end, are burned."- Heinrich Heine

"Had we but world enough, and time..."- Andrew Marvell (To His Coy Mistress)

"Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."- Kingsley Shacklebolt (Deathly Hallows)

"Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down."- Kobi Yamada

"Twenty years from now, you will be more dissapointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."- Mark Twain

"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."- Chuck Yeager

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Thus, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."- George Bernard Shaw

"We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."- Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)

"Nothing... will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."- Samuel Johnson

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."- Thomas Edison

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it!"- Yogi Berra

"First they came for the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and the infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up because I was a Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up."- Pastor Martin Neimoller

"The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old."- William James

"Education is not filling a pail, it is lighting a fire."- William Butler Yeats

"One small stone may only make a ripple, but someday it will be a wave."- Wiegraf Folles (Final Fantasy Tactics)

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."- Albus Dumbledore (Philosopher's Stone)

"The most important things are hardest to say, because words diminish them."- Stephen King

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't act childish sometimes."- Dr. Who

"Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we'll never use."- Charles Schultz

"He who walks in another's tracks leave no footprints."- Joan Brannon

"Everyone makes mistakes. It is what you do afterwards that counts."- Unknown

"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen. They want you to be miserable like them. They don't want Heroes. They want to see you fall."- Leonardo DiCaprio

"I think sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change."- Lucien (Sandman)

"Think like a man of action, act like man of thought."- Henri Louis Bergman

"When you take revenge on somebody, you're actually paying them the highest compliment possible. It's like saying 'you've affected my life to such an extent that I must reciprocate. I must affect your life as deeply as you have mine.' Revenge may be the ultimate Hallmark card. Yeah. When you think about it, the cliche` is true. Revenge is sweet."- Augustus Hill (Oz)

"It was high counsel I once heard given to a young person. 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'"- Raplh Waldo Emerson

"The best way to make your dream come true is to wake up."- Paul Valery

"Play more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game."- Winston Churchill

"It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness"- Chinese proverb

"We are what we do repeatedly. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."- Aristotle

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else."- Yogi Berra

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."- Benjamin Disraeli

"Consider the postage stamp. It's usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."- Josh Billings

"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything."- Alex Hamilton

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be of greater value than what you get."- Jim Rohn

"What it lies in out power to do, it lies in our power not to do."- Aristotle

"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel we have earned it."- Mark Twain

"If ever a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweet the streets even as Michelangelo painted, or as Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper, who did his job well."- Martin Luther King, Jr

"A true friends never gets in your way, unless you happen to be going down."- Arnold H. Glasgow


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