Quotes On Action

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April 14, 2022 4 min read

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Whether you’re stalled out with a project you’re working on, feeling stagnate in your personal life or simply finding you’re procrastinating instead of tackling that to-do list, inspiration can be a powerful motivator to get you going.

Often knowing you’re not alone and being reminded that others have been in your same shoes at some point, and pushed ahead, can be the comforting wisdom you need to move.

Don’t stay stuck! Here are five quotes that will get you off your fence and into action.

1. Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. -- Thomas Jefferson

If ever someone was qualified to give you advice about accomplishing great, even impossible feats in your life, it may well be Jefferson. He was born a British subject and died the third president of a country he helped found. Jefferson knew that the actions you take help shape your character and your life. So will the actions you don’t take.

Which will it be for you?

2. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. -- Peter Marshall

We have all been guilty at some point or another of analysis paralysis. Taking action can seem particularly hard when you’re facing a big decision. While some amount of planning, preparation and deliberation is important, the reality is that taking action, even small ones, will have a compounding effect to carry you forward toward and through the big decisions.

Sometimes the reality is that done is better than perfect.

3. Action is the foundational key to all success. -- Pablo Picasso

Imagine who Picasso would be, or rather wouldn’t be, had he not put paint to canvas. He was a pioneer in art, co-founding the cubist movement, and while his paintings and works were met with both praise and scorn for their total departure from traditional art, he had his own unique artist. Before any of his masterpieces were made, there had to be action behind the man.

Without action, there simply is no success.

4. The path to success is to take massive, determined actions. -- Tony Robbins

Perhaps the greatest success and motivation coach in history, Robbins sure has built a life of action that took him out of poverty and into success. You have to be focused and take the right kinds of action necessary to move forward. If you feel uncomfortable or stretched -- good! That’s the point.

You want to grow into something even more, which means doing and trying more than you were doing or trying yesterday. Be incrementally or massively better in your daily actions. Both will get you further than a standstill.

5. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. -- Zig Ziglar

Aside from having maybe one of the best names ever, Ziglar is known for his motivating speeches. He sums it up perfectly with this quote. Sometimes you can feel afraid to start something new because you’re not as good as the others already doing it. Of course you aren’t, and that’s OK, but if you don’t start playing the game and taking action now, you’ll never get to their level of greatness.

You have to take action and you have to start now. Be OK with the level you’re at now and trust that as you take action, you’ll naturally develop and grow into the greatness that awaits you.

• "It isn't confidence that comes first, but taking action. Confidence follows action. Scott Allan, Do It Scared
Confidence

• The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. It all comes down to what you do today. John C. Maxwell, JumpStart Your Priorities
Quote of The Day

• Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation." Catherine Pulsifer
Take Action Quotes

• "Ideas without action are worthless." Harvey Mackay

• You are not what you think; you are not what you say; you are what you do. Peter Dunne, The 50 Things
Inspirational Quotes

• I have the power to make my worries gigantic or to shrink them. Today I will take action to live fully in the present moment. Amy E. Dean
Good Morning Quotes

• "When we survey our lives and endeavors, we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires is bound up with the existence of other human beings." Albert Einstein, Ideas And Opinions
Helping Others

• Forgiveness is the straightforward action of absolutely refusing to hold ill will. Barbara J Hunt, Forgiveness Made Easy
Forgiveness Quotes

• "Stay focused and don't allow distractions to fill your mind or derail you from taking continued action." Byron Pulsifer
Actions Speak Louder Than Words

• Each individual is solely responsible for his or her own actions, and every action will produce a reaction equal in every way to the suitability of the action. Mary T. Brown, The Power of Karma
Karma Quotes

• Now every godly, gracious man hath this power, to reflect upon hit own action. William Bridge, The Works of the Rev.
Reflection Quotes

• "We all find ourselves in situations that at times seem hopeless. And, we all have the choice to do nothing or take action." Catherine Pulsifer
Hope

• This little thing is action. By staying in motion, the roots of doubt and despair can’t take hold and ensnare us. Michael Matthews, The Little Black Book Of Workout Motivation
Workout

• Egoism is not able to exist in and of itself. It stems from our desire and the will to receive only for the self or the ego. Which means, every action that we do, in its essence, it is driven by our desire to please the self. Remi Meyer, The power of ego - master your life!
Ego

• "No action, no change. Limited action, limited change. Lots of action change occurs." Catherine Pulsifer
Change

• "The most common excuse that we like to give for not taking action is time. Many people feel like there are simply not enough hours in the day to get things done." S. J. Scott, Habit Stacking
Time

• "A little deed done very well is better than a mighty plan kept on paper, undone. Wishes don't change the world; it's actions that do this business!" Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Motivational Quotes

• "I daresay some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a violent shock from the consequences of their own actions." George Eliot
Decision

• "An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature

• If what we are now has been the result of our past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act. Swami Vivekananda
Wishes

• "I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts." Og Mandino
Good

• "You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action." Paul McCabe
Effort

• Learn, and read but more important so
Is taking action and then you'll see success flow!

Funny Poems

• All the noble thoughts, magnificent plans, and "secrets" of achievement in the world are of little value unless and until they are put into action. Our worth is always determined by our deeds, not by our good intentions, however noble. Og Mandino, A Better Way to Live
Achievement

• When all else fails, remember that certain fears can create action as well. It is not always a fear of an activity. Sometimes it is a fear of the results of inactivity. Brian Cagneey, Fear: The 7 Laws Of Fear
Fear

• Negative thoughts bring negative actions while positive thoughts bring positive actions. Sometimes it also helps to take a break. Michael Bennett, The 33 Golden Rules
Positive Thinking

• "The best-known cure for the fear of failure is action - that's right, action. The aspect of taking action helps to quiet nerves and can lead to even minor accomplishments." Byron Pulsifer
Failure

• Christmas is an opportunity to live your faith through actions. Henry Owen, How to Have a Green Christmas
Christmas

• Watch those around you, take notice of your own actions, and make your life better by understanding others and yourself better. Brian Scott, Body Language 101
Life

• Growing up is the recognition to know that you are the only human on this planet that can affect your own actions. Alan Magliocca, From Misery to Millions
Possibilities

• While those things can certainly be selfless actions, they are just that: actions. Actions and behaviors can be mimicked or faked for selfish purposes. Seth Adam Smith, Your life isn't for you
Selfish

• "Circumstances change. Actions that lead to success today will contribute to failure tomorrow. The level of impact created by your actions is directly determined by the context in which those actions were performed." Ryan Caradonna, Jake Caines, Debunking the Leadership Myth
Success

• Only through action have I unlocked the power inside of me to become the person that I've always wanted to be. Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule
Believe In Yourself

• It is 'action' that erodes or replaces worry. As I have said before, worry doesn't accomplish anything but action does. Catherine Pulsifer, Communication Apprehension
Top Ten Quotes on Worry

• Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. Anais Nin
Dream

• Rather than wait for the customer to call back, a bias toward action says to reach out to the customer first. A bias toward action is the proactive ingredient in customer care. Anne MacKeigan, Customer Service the Sandler Way
Customer Service

• "Imagine a world in which everybody first considers how the action or inaction that they plan to take would affect the next person, and proceed only when they are confident that the action or inaction would not affect the next person or would only affect them in a positive and delightful manner!" Phnuel Muverengwi, Why My Life Matters
Positive

• "Dreams mean nothing if they are not followed by action." Jason Harvey, Achieve Anything In Just One Year
Meaningful

• It's believed that your behavior and actions on the first day of the year sets a precedent for all the days that follow. Paul K. Stevens, Vintage New Year
New Year Wishes

• The mind and body learn and remember better from doing than from reading, hearing, or seeing. Kam Knight, Speed Reading
Reading

• Success is found by those who do
Don't let anyone stop you from being you.
Catherine Pulsifer, You Have Excelled
Graduation Poems

• "Sometimes its easier for someone to live in fantasy land dreaming about their life being successful. Other than actually taking action to make that idea come to fruition." Alex Altman, Time Is Money
Successful

• "For courage to be authentic, one must encounter fear and prove superior to the fear through right action." Mark Sturgell
Courage

• "Use the word PERHAPS to change your negative beliefs to possibilities that invite ACTION and, ultimately, to positive beliefs and probabilities." Anita Foley
Believe

• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." Nora Roberts
Moving Forward

• "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, Discouraged, Downtrodden, and Anguish
Motivational Poems

• "If you spend time getting ready to be perfect and do not start out to accomplish your dreams, you will find out later that you could have accomplished your dream if you had just acted." David DeNotaris
Accomplishment

• "There are those who believe that any action counts and is significant towards the end goal or accomplishment. Well, any action won't cut it - the action needs to be directed specifically towards a specific end or task, and each action that follows must compliment the preceding." Catherine Pulsifer, Action Plan Template
Goals

• "If Martin Luther King, Jr., was an apostle of love, he was no less an apostle of action." Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King Jr. |

• Action Quotes

78 Action Quotes to Prod You to Take Action

Welcome to Action Quotes. Action is at the root of any success. The following quotes explain the importance of action

A man may be equipped with tonnes of theory. He may have the best of skills, the most positive of attitudes and the strongest of beliefs. But if he just sits on his butt with all these attributes, nothing is going to come out of it. Action is the basis of all success. Every action may not give success but at the same time no success is possible without action. The following action quotes will shed light on the importance of action in life. Remember that action is the vehicle of success. Read and try to follow what the action quotes say.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Action Quotes-I

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
~ Wayne Gretzky

You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
~ Irish Proverb

• An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
~ Arnold Glasow

• You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
~ Joe Sabah

• Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~ David Lloyd George

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
~ Aristotle

• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
~ Confucius

• The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
~ Confucius

Action Quotes-II

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but we rather have those
because we have acted rightly.
~ Aristotle

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~ Lao Tzu

• Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
~ Russel H. Conwell

• God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

~ St. Augustine

• Never confuse motion with action.

~ Benjamin Franklin

• Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

- William R. Inge

• Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

~ Baltasar Gracian

Action Quotes-III

• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

~ Thomas Alva Edison

• The first step binds one to the second.

~ French Proverb

• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

~ Napolean Bonaparte

• What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

• For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

• I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

• I never worry about action, but only inaction.

~ Winston Churchill

Action Quotes - IV

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed,
but our ability to do has increased.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't bother just to be
better than your
contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner

• Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

~ Robert Collier

• If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

~ Mario Andretti

• You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

~ Abraham Maslow

• Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

~ Oscar Wilde

Action Quotes - V

• People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

~ Lewis Cass

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

• We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

~ Charlotte Bunch

• Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

~ Napolean Bonaparte

• Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin

Action Quotes - VI

• Always do more than is required of you.

~ George S. Patton

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

~ Dale Carnegie

• Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

~ Thomas Carlyle

• Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

~ Thomas Carlyle

• Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

~ Thomas Carlyle

• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Action Quotes - VII

• Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

~ Alexis Carrel

• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

~ Alfred Adler

• Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

~ Brendan Francis

• The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

~ Booker T. Washington

• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

~ Peter Marshall

• Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

• Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.

~ Anthony Robbins

Action Quotes - VIII

• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

~ Thomas Huxley

• There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

~ John F. Kennedy

• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

~ Henri Frederic Amiel

• Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

~ John Anster

• Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

- Baltasar Gracian

Action Quotes - IX

• Action is the antidote to despair.

~ Joan Baez

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

~ Harold Nicolson

• Let your performance do the thinking.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

~ Warren Buffett

• The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

~ Nolan Bushnell

• A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Action Quotes - X

• 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.

~ Jack Canfield

• The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

~ Vance Havner

• Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

~ James Baldwin

• All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

~ William F. Halsey

• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

~ Aristotle

• Well begun is half done.

- Aristotle

Action Quotes - XI

• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

~ Red Auerbach

• Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

~ Decimus Magnus Ausonius

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

~ Al Batt

• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

~ Henry David Thoreau

• Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

- Zig Ziglar

Action Quotes - XII

• Nothing happens untill something moves.

~ Albert Einstein

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

~ Sally Berger

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

~ Henri L. Bergson

• Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

~ Matthew 7:120

• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

~ Jacob Bronowski

• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

~ Russell C. Taylor

• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

~ Wayne Dyer

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