Purposeful Action Quotes

In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Don't talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.

Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

Every intentional act is a magical act.

If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.