Quotes About Action

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Instead of giving into your emotions and your thoughts, take what anger you do have and use the energy and adrenaline that it may give you to go do something constructive.

A good plan today is better than a great plan of tomorrow! Look backward with satisfaction and look forward with confidence.

Imagine how successful we would be if we only followed the advice we want to give to others.

All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Don't tell people 'Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today' today. Prepare today and then tell them tomorrow.

Don't waste your time talking about what you should have done, use your time instead and do the next thing that is needed to be done.

Always Look at the solution, not the problem. Learn to focus on what will give results.

Set clear goals and create and initiate a plan of action that propels you toward the life you wish for.

Confront your fears by doing one thing every day that scares you.

Don't start something if you aren't prepared to accept the consequences

All the so-called secrets of success will not work unless you do.

Seize the moment. Don't expect someone else to do something you want done. If you don't do it yourself, perhaps no one will. By the same token, don't put things off to the future. If you don't do it now, you might never do it at all.

Words have no meaning until they are followed by action. Choose your words carefully and act even more cautiously.

If you don't start somewhere, you'll never get anywhere. If you don't step forward, you are always in the same place. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't go after what you want, you'll never get it.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Advising is easier than helping

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

We may give advice, but we can't inspire conduct.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.