A man may be equipped with tonnes of theory. He may have the best of skills, the most positive of attitudes and the strongest of beliefs. But if he just sits on his butt with all these attributes, nothing is going to come out of it. Action is the basis of all success. Every action may not give success but at the same time no success is possible without action. The following action quotes will shed light on the importance of action in life. Remember that action is the vehicle of success. Read and try follow what the action quotes say.
ACTION QUOTES-I
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
- Arnold Glasow
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
- Wayne Gretzki
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
- Joe Sabah
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- Confucius
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
- Confucius
Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
- Russel H. Conwell
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step.
- Lao Tzu
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
- Aristotle
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
- St. Augustine
ACTION QUOTES-II
Never confuse motion with action.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
- William R. Inge
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
- Baltasar Gracian
The first step binds one to the second.
- French Proverb
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
- Thomas Alva Edison
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napolean Bonaparte
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill
ACTION QUOTES-III
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
- Robert Collier
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
- Anonymous
That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
- Mario Andretti
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
-William Faulkner
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
-Abraham Maslow
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
- Lewis Cass
Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.
- Charlotte Bunch
ACTION QUOTES-IV
Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napolean Bonaparte
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Always do more than is required of you.
- George S. Patton
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
- Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
- Thomas Carlyle
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Thomas Carlyle
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie
ACTION QUOTES-V
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
- Alexis Carrel
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
- Brendan Francis
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
- Booker T. Washington
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
- Peter Marshall
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.
- Anthony Robbins
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- Thomas Huxley
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
ACTION QUOTES-VI
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
- John Anster
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
- Baltasar Gracian
Action is the antidote to despair.
- Joan Baez
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
- Harold Nicolson
Let your performance do the thinking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
- Nolan Bushnell
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
- Jack Canfield
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
- Vance Havner
ACTION QUOTES-VII
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
- William F. Halsey
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- Aristotle
Well begun is half done.
- Aristotle
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
- Red Auerbach
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
- Decimus Magnus Ausonius
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
- Al Batt
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
- Zig Ziglar
ACTION QUOTES-VIII
Nothing happens untill something moves.
- Albert Einstein
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- Sally Berger
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
- Henri L. Bergson
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
- Matthew 7:120
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
- Jacob Bronowski
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
