Action Quotes

"Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud. Get out there and get after it."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"Action is the antidote to despair."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."

"What we do today is what matters most."

"It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

"Mood follows action. Don't wait to feel like doing it. Just do it, and the feeling will come."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"The first thing I do in the morning is breathe. The second is get out of bed."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"To achieve big things, you have to do small things. And to do small things, you have to do them now."

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."

"The five-second rule is a simple way to push yourself to take the first small step."

"Don't wait for the big win. Take the ground you can right now."

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

"The best time to start was last year. The second best time is now."

"The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing."

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk."

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the mastery of fear and the doing of the thing you fear."

"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."

"Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything."

"If you want to be happy, you need to be proud of yourself. To be proud of yourself, you need to do things to be proud of."

"Intellect is nothing without energy. Ideas are nothing without execution."

"Speed is the most important thing in business. Money loves speed."