Quotes About Action

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want.

I don't care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.

Whatever you do, just don't stand still. Make the changes you need today, so you can live the life you want, tomorrow.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today's actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

We must be the world we want to create.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

With all the negativity in the world, I want to do something positive.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

Everyone wants to change, but no one wants to do anything differently.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.