Action Quotes

Let these motivational quotes on action inspire you to take action. You can set all the goals in the world, if you take NO action then those goals are worthless! Take action towards achieving your goals today!

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."
Napoleon Hill

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
Dale Carnegie

"Never confuse motion with action."
Benjamin Franklin

"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do."
Henry Ford

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do. Nothing else."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Drive thy business, or it will drive thee."
Benjamin Franklin

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
Latin Proverb

"Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day.
Today will never happen again."
Og Mandino

"Rather than thinking 'if and when', start doing, take action, stop talking about 'if and when'."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
W. Clement Stone

"Good actions are never lost."
Turkish Proverb

"Personal action is your pathway to success, even if it is a little bit at a time!"
Catherine Pulsifer

"No action, no change
Limited action, limited change
Lots of action
Change occurs."
Catherine Pulsifer

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. "
English Proverb

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
Florence Nightingale

"The dreams I only thought about, the ones I took no action on, well they are still dreams. But the ones that I took action on, they are now a reality."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Ideas without action are worthless."
Harvey Mackay

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think there is something, more important than believing:
Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision."
W. Clement Stone

"You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Thought is action in rehearsal."
Sigmund Freud

"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind."
Irish Proverb

"Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson