Commitment to Action Quotes

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the effort. It's in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled. Someone put it this way: Live only for tomorrow, and you will have a lot of empty yesterdays today.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

I'm absolutely committed to Hastings.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

I want to say to the American people, we hear you. We will do right by you.

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

What I'm encouraging President Trump and the Cabinet and congressional leaders to do, is let's keep our promises. Let's do what we said we would do, and that's what each and every one of you can hold all of us accountable for.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

. . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.