Quotes about Action
Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).
— Stephen Covey
To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not do is really not to know.
— Stephen Covey
Whenever someone in our family, even one of the younger children, takes an irresponsible position and waits for someone else to make things happen or provide a solution, we tell them, "Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).
— Stephen Covey
Proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.
— Stephen Covey
In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb.
— Stephen Covey
in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.
— Stephen Covey
Then love her. If the feeling isn't there, that's a good reason to love her." "But how do you love when you don't love?" "My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?
— Stephen Covey
Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. I
— Stephen Covey
Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do.
— Stephen Covey
Sow a thought, reap an action.
— Stephen Covey
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors
— Stephen Covey
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the
— Stephen Covey