Quotes About Action

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

When I wake up in the morning, I'm thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.

Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Don't save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.

If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.

If I want a better-than-average career, I can't simply 'go with the flow' and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If they would just do something most people would find that they get some version of the outcome they're looking for. That's been my secret. Stop wishing and start doing.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens. —YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you're moving.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

Don't confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

courage was more important than confidence. When you are operating out of courage, you are saying that no matter how you feel about yourself or your opportunities or the outcome, you are going to take a risk and take a step toward what you want. You are not waiting for the confidence to mysteriously arrive. I now believe that confidence is achieved through repeated success at any endeavor.

Ben Franklin's excellent advice: "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI, former British Prime Minister

Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.