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Quotes About Action

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
~ William Shakespeare
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any act in the name of God returns 10 fold.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.
~ James A. Baldwin
It is what you do about what happens that counts.
~ Jim Rohn
If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.
~ John Adams
Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.
~ Jon Jones
The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence often brings about momentary results.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.
~ Peter Ginter
If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.
~ Robin Sharma
It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
~ Steven Pressfield
Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.
~ Truman Capote
A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
~ Brian Tracy
if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true
~ Meindert DeJong
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
~ Gregory Benford
You develop faith by doing things that require faith.
~ John H. Groberg
Stop whining, start hustling.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
~ George Chapman
If you do what you fear, you won't fear what you do.
~ Gordon Morton McGregor
No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.
~ Grant Cardone