“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, goodreads.com
“So I stopped talking about it. There’s no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”— Bernhard Schlink, amazon.com
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”— Hannah Kent, amazon.com
“Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail.”— Steve Jobs, youtube.com
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”— Japanese Proverb, twitter.com
“What do you want to be when you grow up?" As a child how many of you remember having been asked this question by an adult? I think maybe this question is a way to get to know the child better. But I feel this question has an inherent problem. It tells young people that it is okay to wait till they g…”— Ishita Katyal, youtube.com
“Most people have a belief about what their potential is no matter what you tell them and that affects how much action they take. And then, of course, that affects the results. And then, ironically, that result reinforces their belief. And then their belief affects it.”— Tony Robbins, youtube.com
“But love… is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I'm going to take the life I was supposed to have instead of waiting for it to come and find me.”— Dan Fogelman, Jack, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com
“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”— Wally Lamb, amazon.com
“Don’t stand around too long having conversations about it. Do it. Refine it. Do it more. Try it a different way. Keep at it until you break through to the next level.”— Ryan McGinley, ryanmcginley.com
“Of course you could do more - you can always do more, and you should do more - but still, the important things is to do what you can, whenever you can. You just do your best, and that's all you can do. Too many people use the excuse that they don't think they can do enough, so they decide they don't…”— Will Schwalbe, amazon.com
“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“If you want to persuade me that everything is going to be terrible, then we can talk ourselves into that. Or we can act.”— Barack Obama, rollingstone.com