Quotes About Action

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

If somebody tells me they want something or they want something to happen and if it's in my power to make it happen, I start working on it thinking they meant it.

If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.