Action Quotes

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner's eyes. You will feel better.

You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

I miss all the shots I don't take.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Your country requiresheroes; be heroes; yourduty is to go on working,and then everything willfollow of itself.

Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.

You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Activity is contagious.

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

We are running out of time

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

To change one's life:a. Start immediatelyb. B. Do it flamboyantlyc. No exceptionsNever suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving upon the path in harmony with your idea of that which is good.

When you know better you do better.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

Many people say, "Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life." They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.

What are you doing for others?

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

Change is automatic, Progress is Not!

Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.