Quotes About Action

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I try to act out of faith.

We do not take advantage of many of our gifts, especially opportunities…

We all pretend things sometimes. And sometimes we leave thing too late.

Can you really change anything, Joel?

So he who strongly feels, behaves.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

Clarity comes from engagement, not thought!

insight without action is worthless. Taking action is the only path to change.

if you're committed to figuring things out, all excuses have got to go.

No matter what you want to figure out, one thing is for sure: writing it down is a fundamental step to making it real.

What can I learn from this? How can this work for me?

Yet there can be no significant change in the world unless we first have the courage to change ourselves. In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.

Knowing something intellectually is very different from doing something consistently, mastering it, and benefiting from it.

A key to success is to start before you are ready.

Instead of saying, What's the point? ask yourself, What's the next right move?

When you're stuck in a paralyzing thought loop of indecision, stop thinking and start doing. Make a move, no matter how tiny.

How can this work me? How can this work for me?

You might have heard that "fear" is the acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. Or maybe you roll with the cheeky edition: Fuck Everything and Run. I prefer the more actionable version: Face Everything and Rise.

Fear is not the enemy. Waiting to stop feeling afraid is.

Action is the antidote to fear.

Doing the thing is far easier than the terror we inflict upon ourselves by stressing over it in our heads. The fastest way out of our fear is through it.