Quotes About Action

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

Start before you're ready.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now. — W. H. Murray

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. I was developing symptoms. As soon as I sat down and began, I was okay.

she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.

Start before you're ready.

Don't think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we've acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

Don't prepare. Begin.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it's our job to realize it and get down to business.