Quotes About Action

Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

Don't just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great.

Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.

You should make great things, not promising great things.

You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

Great actions speak great minds.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.