Quotes About Action

All the world's progress in every field of activity has been the result of action by men, and women who experienced inspirational dissatisfaction-never by those who were satisfied

Remember: The essence of a living philosophy is that it must be alive. To be alive, it must be lived. To be lived, you must act! Actions, not mere words, determine the validity of a man's living philosophy.

It is not enough to do your best, you must know what to do, and then do your best.

Any substantial improvement must come from action on the system, the responsibility of management. Wishing and pleading and begging the workers to do better was totally futile.

It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to- that is what they must do.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

I've found most authors have the wrong mental picture of the process. Instead of a sprint, publishing is more like a marathon. Slow, steady and consistent action will get you your audience and success.

From my 25+ years in publishing, I've observed that selling books does not occur without the author taking action.

Letting it happen is not making it happen. It is not trying hard.

Again focus your attention on the can; then let the serve serve itself.

I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.