Action Quotes

If you have and quotes about action, please leave them down below. Thanks and enjoy!
 

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

~Will Rogers

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."

~Richard Cumberland

 

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

~Earl Nightingale

 

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

~Benjamin Disraeli

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

~Norman Vincent Peale

"The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things."

~Charles M. Schwab

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it."

~Margaret Thatcher

"Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance."

~John C. Maxwell

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

~Benjamin Franklin

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."

~Arnold Glascow

"Take control now. Forget about the negative thoughts which others have told you - that you are too old or too young. Stop letting the thoughts of others rule your life; stop being weak and cowardly, blaming your lack of progress on those negative programs. If you begin now and become a do-er, you will have earned your right to remain here."

~Thomas D. Willhite

"If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence."

~John B. Gough

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."

~unknown

"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."

~Donald H. Rumsfeld

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays."

~Professor Harold Hill (The Music Man)

"You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over."

~Paul H. Dunn

"Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do."

~Vivian Baxter

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Virtue is doing it."

~David Starr Jordan

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

~Douglas Adams

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."

~Jonathan Winters

 

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you."

~Zig Ziglar

 

"At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start."

~Brian Tracy

 

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through."

~F. W. Nichol

 

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

~Albert Einstein

"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

~Napoleon Hill

"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."

~Oprah Winfrey

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."

~G.W.F. Hegel

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

~Jules Renard

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

~Neale Donald Walsch

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do."

~Edward Everett Hale

"Stop looking at life through a keyhole...open the door to opportunity...get involved, and CREATE the YOU that you CHOOSE to become."

~Thomas D. Willhite

"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow."

~Bill Moyers

"Act as if everything you think, say and do determines your entire life - because in reality, it does!"

~Laurelle Adrian

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

~Al Batt

"With so little time, there are just not enough minutes left to hate, not enough time for gossip or fighting. We should all be so busy "doing" and "being" that we have no time left for anything but accomplishing "good."

~Thomas D. Willhite

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

~Leonardo da Vinci

"One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time."

~Sean Covey

"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them."

~Elbert Hubbard

"All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition."

~Bob Proctor

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."

~Rita Mae Brown

"People can become anything that they want to become. Everyone has the ability - all that is needed is the will, a plan, and the power to put that plan into action."

~Thomas D. Willhite

"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

~ H. Jackson Brown

"Having a dream you don't pursue is like buying an ice-cream cone and watching it melt all over your hand."

~Frank Papasso

"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice."

~Steven D. Woodhull

"The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant."

~Orison S. Marden

"Try and fail, but don't fail to try."

~Stephen Kaggwa

"It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it."

~Bob Proctor~

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the REALIST adjusts his sails."

(author unknown)

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

~Albert Einstein

"Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual ... And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all. The very act of resting is the hardest and most courageous act he can perform."

~Thomas Merton

"Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

~Napoleon Hill

"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."

~Chinese Proverb

"Listen to your I AM’s. You are your I AM’s – the ones you feel in your gut. And the moment that you say, “I refuse to listen to my limitations any more; I refuse to be this or that; I am happier; I am healthier; I am more open; I am more trusting,” you start becoming that way."

~Thomas D. Willhite

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had 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

"No one controls your mind but you…no one can prevent you from formulating your definite main goal…no one can halt your planning for the accomplishment of that goal..no one can stop you from becoming enthusiastic about those plans."

~Thomas D. Willhite

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."

~Richard M. DeVos

"I knew from feelings that I had to do something. And I did it. And I did it well. I did what made me feel better tomorrow even though it was very, very painful at the time. The result was beneficial. Doing those things today that feel good tomorrow."

~Thomas D. Willhite

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

~Jack London

"You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years."

~Jim Rohn

"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more."

~A. Lou Vickery

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

~Sidney J. Harris

"Ideas without action are worthless."

~unknown

"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act."

~Abraham Maslow

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

~Samuel Johnson

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

~George Bernard Shaw

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

~Anatole France

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

~St. Francis of Assisi

"Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference."

~Mark Victor Hansen

 

"The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it."

~Joseph Murphy

 

"You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall."

~Jim Rohn

Action Quotes

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Napoleon Hill

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.

- Stephen Covey 

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

- ‎Frances Willard 

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

- Hannah Arendt 

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill 

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill 

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

- Stevie Wonder 

‎Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

- Wim Wenders 

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain 

Action is eloquence.

- William Shakespeare 

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

- Aristotle 

Think globally, act locally.

- Rene Dubos 

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde 

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill 

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt 

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Buddha 

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt 

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

- Immanuel Kant 

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

- Madame de Stael 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh 

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus 

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln 

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

- Buddha 

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy 

Great talent finds happiness in execution.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.

- Barack Obama 

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt 

The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!

- High Eagle 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden 

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

There are no gains without pains.

- Benjamin Franklin