Quotes About Action

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Work for the things that you care about.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

No excuses. Just do the work.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.