Quotes About Action

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who hesitates is last.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

The test of any man lies in action.