Quotes About Action

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Everything we do tells something about us.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

In your own life, use the words "I am creating," "I am doing," "I am manifesting," "I am intending," and "I am bringing about." Forget "I am trying.

For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.

Esther Clovis might not be much of a tea-maker but she had considerable organizing ability and knew how to act in a crisis, as at this moment, confronted with the anthropologists who would not go.

porque yo había observado que los hombres no solían hacer cosas a menos que les gustara hacerlas.

From her perspective, reading, discussions, forums, and lectures were as important to a movement for social change as mass protests, boycotts, and strikes.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

The two most important rules for any dream are: Start small. Start now. For Scanners, add two more:   Start everything and   Don't bother to finish any of it. (Just save it in your Daybook!)

Frustration is supposed to create action, not make you give up.

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Start small. Start now. Start everything. And don't bother to finish any of it.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.

Feel the Fear. Have the Doubts. Go for It Anyway.

But in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., "You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step in faith.

Success rarely comes to the passive or pessimistic.

When in doubt, act.

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step in faith.