Quotes About Action

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear.

People who preach inner drive are dreamers with a lot of ideas and a lot of talk, and zero production.

You make decisions, not suggestions; you know the answer while everyone else is still asking questions.

no trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you're not going to do the work, if you're waiting for someone to make it happen for you. It's on you. And that's why I'm telling you all of this, not because I want you to know what I do for my guys, but because I want you to know what you have to do for yourself.

Ask yourself where you are now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you're willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it.

You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What's stopping you?

And most people who claim to have killer instinct rarely do, because when you have that kind of power, you don't talk about it. You don't think about it. You just use it.

You can't make things better until you stop me asking them worse.

He never sees problems, only situations to resolve, and when he finds the solution, he doesn't waste time explaining it.

No. It's not about luck, I don't believe in luck. There are facts and opportunities and realities, and how you respond to them determines whether you succeed or fail.

You don't wait to be told, you don't waver from your goal. When it's time to act, you act, instinctively and without hesitation. As you will read in these pages: Done. Next.

Here's the deal: 90 percent of the time, whatever you do will turn out to be a mistake, but that's still better than doing nothing, which is always a mistake.

Because trust earned by action is always better than words.

I think I just found a new definition of "nightwinging" it

Maybe Marcus was wrong. Maybe a single person can save the world. I'll bet I could. I could save the whole world - for a night.

What else am I going to do, let the girl sit there on a railing in the moonlight thinking she's damned to go dudeless for the rest of her life?

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Richard Nixon had quoted the same speech the day before

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

I have no idea when (or if) racism will be eradicated. I have no idea whether anything I say, do, or write will make the least bit of difference in the world. But I say it, do it, and write it anyway, because as uncertain as the outcome of our resistance may be, the outcome of our silence and inaction is anything but.

Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced."24

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.