Quotes About Action

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

Your mind may not know what to do today, but your heart does. Follow your heart.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.