Quotes About Action

It is energy, the central element of which is will, that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

Example is more efficacious than precept.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.