Quotes About Action

What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.

Once the race starts, it doesn't matter what you did yesterday let alone last year.

The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.

I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.

I was inspired by the great West Indian fast bowler Joel Garner's action. I gained confidence knowing I was emulating his action and eventually perfected the Yorker.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.