Quotes About Action

Begin doing what you want to do now.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

The beginning is half of every action.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

We will not know unless we begin.

To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

Now, go take on the day!

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.