Quotes About Action

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Hitler was therefore determined to trump the enemy in the art of propaganda. He was a brilliant popular orator and drew huge crowds. He knew there was no better way to incite a mob to action than to give them a scapegoat, someone they could blame for their suffering, and he found one in the Jews.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair.

Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.

He questioned Maurice, who, when he grasped the point, was understood to reply that deeds are more important than words.

A chance word or a sigh are just as much evidence as a speech or a murder: the life they reveal ceases to be secret and enters the realm of action.

You mustn't put off what you think right," said Hamidullah. "That is why India is in such a plight, because we put off things.

Don't act. Or act better.

What does one want with dusty economic books, which have made the world no better, ...

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.

One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard.

Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work.

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

DAY ACTION IDEAS FOR PUTTING THE STRANGEST SECRET TO WORK FOR YOU

worth any price. You will become what you think about. Remember the word "imagination," and let your mind begin to soar. Courage—concentrate on your goal every day. Save 10 percent of what you earn. Action—ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

But much more important than that, only one in "I don't know how many thousands" will take a large notepad, write the problem at the top of the page, and then deliberately turn on his thinking apparatus.