Quotes About Action

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Don't just stand there; make something happen.

Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.

One day you will wake up & there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do. It's time to face your fears and take action. Expect Miracles.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.