Quotes About Action

take care with what you think. Because what you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying." —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

Do the thing, and you shall have the power." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay on Compensation

never doubt that a single thoughtful, committed person can change the world.

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.

Because what you need to transform your life is not more information.

There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started.

If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.

Don't try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start.

Something is easy not to do when it won't bankrupt you, destroy your career, ruin your relationships or wreck your health—today.

Everything you do, every decision you make, is either building your dream or building someone else's dream. Every single thing you do is either leading you away from the masses—or leading you away with the masses. Every single thing you do is a slight edge decision.

That's the choice you face every day, every hour: A simple, positive action, repeated over time. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do.

The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started. People

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better. It's easy to do. But it's easy not to do, too.

They do the thing, and gain the power.

Life is doing. If you aren't doing, you're dying.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power.

So easy to do. So easy not to do.

Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

I could not change my past but that I could rebuild a new future by taking just a small step every day in the right direction,

Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." —Charles Reade

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

Hoping for "the big break"—the breakthrough, the magic bullet—is not only futile, it's dangerous, because it keeps you from taking the actions you need to create the results you want.