Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Never mistake motion for action.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Your actions are your only true belongings.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

If your dreams don’t match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

Time your actions so you’re not fighting against the currents but moving with them.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

As negative thoughts produce negative actions, positive thoughts produce positive actions.

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

Insight without action is worthless.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.