Quotes about Action

Get action. Seize the moment.
Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.

In choosing to do the uncomfortable, we create comfort where it was not before -- in choosing to do the unfamiliar, we create the familiar where it was not before -- and, in choosing to do the unpleasant, we create the pleasant where it was not before.

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or principle.

Do not undervalue the place of discomfort in your life.
Winners in life enjoy and treasure, equally, the comfort of renewing and the discomfort of doing -- knowing a mixture of both is required for lasting happiness.

There was never a consequence so great as the regret of inaction.

that nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still.

Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not remain"on the horns of a dilemma."  Do not fence sit.

 Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction. Not to decide is to decide. Try to not make choices by default. 

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

Hard work is not the path to Well- Being. Feeling good is the path to Well-Being. You don't create through action; you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action from you. 

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

It has been said that we think then act, but in reality we act then rationalize our actions.

"Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you.  Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole.  When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains." 

You were chosen by the Universe as an expression of Its greatness.  Yet, with every thought and with every action, you must choose greatness or something less.

Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone,
which can become a watered-down, occasional hope
that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

As you gain awareness of the many threads of reality that exist within your field of possibilities, you can consciously choose the thread you wish to energize. Even if a thread of reality does not seem very "probable" at the moment, you can begin to bring your focus and attention to that time-line. As long as you are willing to take action, and keep on taking action to create a reality shift, you will eventually make the shift.  

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God.
When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

A leader is someone who compels others to positive action by the power of their own positive action.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.  If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.  If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.  And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.  The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Once you start deliberately offering thought, then you can never offer enough action to keep up with the thought. Once you access the Energy that creates worlds, a huge vortex comes into place, and there's just not enough action for you to keep up with that. And so, what you have to do is visualize every step of the way, envision you happy in the process. Envision things in place, envision people catching on. Just envision it working. Skip over the how and the where and the when and the who -- and just stay focused upon the what and the why. Abraham

If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear your words."