Action Quotes

"Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. " English Proverb

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We need to determine what activities best utilize our time in order to achieve the results we desire in all areas of our life!" Catherine Pulsifer

"Dare to dream, but even more importantly, dare to put action behinds your dreams." Josh Hinds

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
Mary Kay Ash

"Speaking from my personal experiences, setting goals, along with a detailed action plan, has actually changed my life from one cast in frustration to one of purpose."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Accepting responsibility for your actions, WINNING
Always having an excuse for your actions, LOSING."
Catherine Pulsifer

"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

"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind." Irish Proverb

"Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Abundance is from activity." Turkish Proverb

"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea." Robert Half

"A man's action is only a picture book of his creed." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can only control two things your attitude and your activity." Author Unknown, from Achieve Your Dreams

"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life." Les Brown

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

"Take action every day - some small dose at a time." Jeffrey Gitomer

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." Simone de Beauvoir

"Rather than thinking 'if and when', start doing, take action, stop talking about 'if and when'." Catherine Pulsifer, from IF and WHEN

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will." W. Clement Stone

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." Napoleon Hill

"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

“Never confuse motion with action.” Benjamin Franklin

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." Friedrich Engels

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do. Nothing else." Mahatma Gandhi

“Drive thy business,or it will drive thee.”
Benjamin Franklin

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." Latin Proverb

"Today, many will take the action necessary to make a difference. Why not you?" Steve Maraboli, from Why Not You?

There is a positive you and there is a negative you. When you begin to realize which you is responsible for specific actions that you take, you can finally eliminate the negative and build upon the positive. Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"What will they remember, your actions today will determine what they will remember." Catherine Pulsifer, from REMEMBERING YOU

"You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action." Catherine Pulsifer, from Be A Possibilitarian

"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

"People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do." Submitted by Lauren

""Well done is better than well said. " Benjamin Franklin

"The dreams I only thought about, the ones I took no action on, well they are still dreams. But the ones that I took action on, they are now a reality." Catherine Pulsifer

"Light the fire within."
Submitted by Lauren

"Doing the Right Thing - Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all." Mike Gafka

"We are responsible for what we are, and we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. 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

"Who you are is not what you are but is what you are that determines who you are." William Ngwako Maphoto

"Nothing happens until I make it happen."
contributed by: Scott Wilson

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”Henry Ford

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results." Florence Nightingale

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

"Ideas without action are worthless."Harvey Mackay

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

"What motivates you to change, to take action? Those who wait to take action until they find themselves in a desperate situation face more difficulties than they need to." Catherine Pulsifer, from Don't Wait For Desperate Times

"I think there is something, more important than believing: Action!
The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision."
W. Clement Stone

"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

"Coaching is an action, not a title and actions result in successes!"Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Good-bye Manager, Hello Coach!

"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

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by." Hong Kong Proverb

"The point is that we can make choices that help us to move forward through adversity, or we may make choices that assist others to move beyond or through some of life's issues." Byron Pulsifer, from Choices

"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change." Les Brown

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." Mary Kay Ash

"So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin." W. Clement Stone