Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

21.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

22.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

23.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

24.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

25.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

28.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

29.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

30.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

31.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

33.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

35.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

36.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

37.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

38.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

40.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

41.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

42.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

44.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

45.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

46.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

47.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

48.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

49.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

50.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver