Quotes About Action

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you're expected to work to make it happen?

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

Forget yourself and go to work.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

The job is not the work.

Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.

There is always a choice about the way you do your work even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.

It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.