Looking for quotes about action?
No matter how many ideas we may create or how many dreams we have, there is only one way to fulfill them. And that is taking action.
Here are the best motivational quotes and sayings for 2023 that will inspire you to take and turn your ideas and dreams into action at the right time.
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What Is Action Sayings
1. “Action is the foundational key to all success” – Pablo Picasso
2. “Action is the universal language of success” – Steve Maraboli
3. “Action is what makes hope a reality” – Timothy M. Brenner
4. “Action is the antidote to despair” – Joan Baez
5. “Action expresses priorities” – Mahatma Gandhi
6. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
7. “Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream” – Oscar Wilde
8. “The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thought” – John Locke
Quotes About Importance Of Taking Action
9. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action” – Benjamin Disraeli
10. “Taking action is the only path to change” – Marie Forleo; Everything Is Figureoutable
11. “Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it” – Mark Manson; The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
12. “Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of action” – Steve Maraboli
13. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action” – William James
14. “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
15. “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear” – Norman Vincent Peale
16. “It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result” – Mahatma Gandhi
Short Quotes About Action
17. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does” – William James
18. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
19. “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act” – Bob Dylan
20. “Action is the seed of thoughts” – Lailah Gifty Akita
21. “Action creates momentum. Momentum creates success” – Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
22. “The path to success is to take massive, determined actions” – Tony Robbins
23. “There is only one proof of ability—action” – Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
24. “It is action that erodes or replaces worry” – Catherine Pulsifer
25. “Never confuse motion with action” – Benjamin Franklin
26. “Action is the proper fruit of knowledge” – Thomas Fuller
Quotes On Inspired Action
27. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you” – Thomas Jefferson
28. “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
29. “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in” – Napolean Bonaparte
30. “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
31. “A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer’s need” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
32. “It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action” – Al Batt
33. “The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind” – Jacob Bronowski
34. “The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest” – Carlyle
Quotes And Sayings On Positive Actions
35. “Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man’s nature” – Robert South
36. “A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do. Nothing else” – Mahatma Gandhi
37. “Each individual is solely responsible for his or her own actions, and every action will produce a reaction equal in every way to the suitability of the action” – Mary T. Brown
38. “No action, no change. Limited action, limited change. Lots of action change occurs” – Catherine Pulsifer
39. “An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. “The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions” – Confucius
41. “You need to know it’s your actions that will make you a good person, not desire” – Matthew Quick
42. “Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought” – Henri Bergson
Quotes About Actions Over Words
43. “You do not write your life with words, You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do – Patrick Ness
44. “If your actions don’t live up to your words, you have nothing to say” – DaShanne Stokes
45. “Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning” – Ben Franklin
46. “Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often” – Mark Twain
47. “Actions speak louder than thoughts – it’s what you do when presented with the opportunity that showcase your love, or lack of” – Anna Shine
48. “Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing, that’s the only thing” – Ernest Gaines
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