Quotes About Action

A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?

If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.