Take Action Quotes

“Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.”
― Shannon Alder

“Knowledge is power: You hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It's only potential power. It only becomes power when we apply it and use it.

Somebody who reads a book and doesn't apply it, they're at no advantage over someone who's illiterate.

None of it works unless YOU work. We have to do our part. If knowing is half the battle, action is the second half of the battle.”
― Jim Kwik

“Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens – constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities – and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“There is no perfect place, job or life; we only have the present time. Love what you do, or do something else".”
― Rodolfo Peon

“What a freeing thought it was to no longer believe I had to deserve something in order to get it.'

He's right; that would be a shockingly freeing thought.

'Stop waiting,' Madoc says. 'Sink those pretty teeth into something.'

I give him a sharp look, trying to decide if he is making fun of me. I lean down and write in the dirt and the crust of my own dried blood. Monsters have teeth like mine.

He grins as though I am finally getting his point. 'That they do.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“When there is time, there is no money... And when there is money, there is no time... So, if you don't want to have regrets in this life, do it when you have either of them, don't wait for both!”
― Yulia Lipovka

“Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action. You can so act upon the environment in which you are now as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment. Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act upon your present environment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.”
― Wallace D. Wattles

“Stop complaining. Get busy doing what you can do.”
― Germany Kent

“Who says you have to be rich in order to be strong and beautiful?”
― AriaKang

“Don’t let your dreams end in your sleep. Bring them over here!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Why do we think it's inevitable? Why doesn't Man Friday ever get himself a rifle, or slit Robinson Crusoe's neck in the night? The problem is that we're always living like we've lost. We're all living like you. We see their guns, their silver-work, and their ships, and we think it's already over for us. We don't stop to consider how even the playing field actually might be. And we never consider what things would look like if we took the gun.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“When you get serious about your brand that is when the tide will shift.”
― Germany Kent

“Back your excuses and you live the same life. Back your dreams and you illuminate the world with your light.”
― Hiral Nagda

“True power is going for what you want and becoming a better you”
― AriaKang

“You must actively manage your career because otherwise things won’t just happen. Hope is not a strategy.”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“If you're not willing to move your feet don't go asking God for help.”
― Germany Kent

“You take epic leaps year on year by staying faithful to your soul vision and crafting momentum every single day.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Ideas alone will not change the world, but deeds will.”
― Dax Bamania

“Waiting for unity is just inviting inertia.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“To change, you must act. Test and learn. Be bold. This will be a series of messy experiments, filled with learning in the guise of mistakes.”
― Martin O'Toole (How To Die Happy)

“Action is the greatest prayer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Prayers don't work unless you do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Success doesn't know whether you were caused by your parents. The secret to success is knowing the principles of success and taking action.”
― Onipede Ayomide

“We learn by doing. Action is the greatest teacher.”
― Brian Reese

“If you do nothing else, do this: TAKE ACTION!”
― Brian Reese

“IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ~ JUST KEEP MOVING FORWARD UNTIL YOU FIGURE IT OUT.
(sorry all caps is how I found it in my notes)”
― Karin Slaughter, Cop Town