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Quotes About Action

Action is character.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Action makes more fortune than caution.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.
~ Charles Bukowski
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Success is a state of mind, waiting for action.
~ Jon Jones
Action is the fundamental key to success.
~ Pablo Picasso
When you hear that something can't be done, ignore that advice and push forward.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?
~ Napoleon Hill
To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.
~ James Arthur Ray
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
~ Anita Roddick
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
~ Shiv Khera
The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.
~ Robert G. Allen
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
~ Laozi
Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.
~ Susan Collins
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
~ Bryant McGill
Action is the foundation of all success.
~ Pablo Picasso
Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.
~ Padma Lakshmi
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
~ John C. Maxwell
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.
~ Paul J. Meyer
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
~ Marcus Aurelius