Quotes About Action

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

Wishing is a goal without energy behind it.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

Don't be afraid to be wrong; be more afraid, not to do the right thing.

It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!

It's just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.

what is more accessible in mind becomes more probable in action,

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

The aim is to get someone to want to buy quickly, without thinking too much about it.

Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

Psychologists have long understood the power of the consistency principle to direct human action.

There are good reasons for the superiority of if/when-then plans: the specific sequencing of elements within the plans can help us defeat the traditional enemies of goal achievement. The "if/when-then" wording is designed to put us on high alert for a particular time or circumstance when a productive action could be performed. We become prepared, first, to notice the favorable time or circumstance and, second, to associate it automatically and directly with desired conduct.

As an old adage advises, "If you really want to get something done, you've got three options: do it yourself, pay top dollar, or forbid your teenagers to do it.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Citizenship entails more than voting on election days. It requires ongoing engagement—knowing what needs to be done, getting the facts and understanding the arguments, and then making enough of a ruckus, and organizing and mobilizing others to join you, to do what needs to be done.

Great ends demand great means.

Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed; they do not change the basic nature of existing processes or create new functions.

Does he make things happen, or does he make excuses?

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.