We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
It isn't what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do.
Brian Tracy
When you're outnumbered and surrounded and someone yells "charge", you don't have to ask which direction. Any way you're facing, you'll find a target.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.
Jim Rohn
Genius is not some fortunate arrangement of brain cells. Genius is energy, only directed energy.
Gerry Spence
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Alva Edison
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
William James
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower
True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.
Edward Humphrey
Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.
James Allen
This is the source.
"Some day" doesn't exist, never has, and never will. There is no "some day". There's only today. When tomorrow comes, it will be another today; so will the next day. They all will. There is never anything but today.
Jeff Olson
This is the source.
What you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.
Jeff Olson
This is the source.
You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.
Jeff Olson
This is the source.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
John Motley
Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions are the chief mark of greatness.
Carlo Goldoni
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
William Burnham
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear.
Norman Vincent Peale
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
Omar Bradley
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Horace Mann
You choose your friends, you choose your environment, you choose your actions. And you will be held accountable.
Lou Holtz
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Publilius Syrus
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law.
Stephen Covey
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