Quotes About Action

"I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."

— Est'e Lauder

"Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing."

— Einstein

"The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day, so it grows stronger'."

— Lon Centlivre

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint, and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."

— Charles Finley

"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails."

— Robert Half

"There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, 'What happened?'"

— Casey Stengel

"Just do it."

— Nike

"When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower."

— John Ruskin

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

— Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last."

— Hamilton Holt.

"Start where you are. Use what you have.' Do what you can."

— Arthur Ashe

"There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble."

— Jack Kemp

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

— John Ruskin

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

— Lao Tzu

"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work."

— Harry S Truman

"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money"

— William Lyon Phelps

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but wat he becomes by it."

— John Ruskin

"Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry."

— Oliver Goldsmith

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."

— David Bly

"Millions of small actions create a wave of new possibility."

— Anonymous

"Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overall, and looks like work."

— Thomas Edison

"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Academic success requires more than ability. It requires the application of ability and the growth of ability through sustained hard work."

— Carol Dweck

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

— Henry Ford

"No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavour. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start."

— Jack Ma

"It's not that people with a growth mind-set are able to overcome their fears because they are braver than the rest of us; it's just that they know fear and anxiety are paralyzing emotions and that the best way to overcome this paralysis is to take action. People with a growth mind-set are empowered, and empowered people know that there's no such thing as a truly perfect moment to move forward. So why wait for one? Taking action turns all your worry and concern about failure into positive, focused energy."

— Dr Travis Bradberry, author

"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."

— Alexander Graham Bell

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

— Pablo Picasso

"Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing; and if you are good enough at it, the money will come."

— Greer Garson

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.' Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I do not believe in genius, only persistent courageous labour."

— M. Reger

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

— Vince Lombardi

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

— Conrad Hilton

"The happy people are those who are producing something."

— William Ralph Inge

"Just Start."

— German proverb

"Anyone can attain my level, if he is as diligent as I have been for my entire life."

— J.S. Bach

"Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

— Peter Drucker

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it."

— Henry Thoreau

"It's not enough to dream the dream. Change comes from action. We need to take action to make the vision real."

— Anonymous

"The work praises the man."

— Irish proverb

"Work hard in silence, let success make the noise."

— Frank Ocean

"To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?"

— Catherine Graham

"What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan"

— Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

"Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it."

— Mark Zuckerberg

"Action will destroy your procrastination"

— Og Mandino

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles. Find what it is that interest you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it, every bit of energy and ambition and national ability you have."

— John D Rochfeller III

"If you truly want to change the world, you need more than talent. You also need to do the work, because hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard."

— Mary Barra

"It's lonely at the top. 99% of the world is convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre middle-ground."

— Tim Ferris, Entrepreneur

"He who labours diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labour."

— Menander

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

— Napoleon Hill

"One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented."

— Brian Tracy

"The clear message from decades of research is that no matter what role innate genetic endowment may play in the achievement of gifted people, the main gift that these people have is the same one we all have the adaptability of the human brain and body, which they have taken advantage of more than the rest of us. We can also take advantage of this if we take control of our life. Over time, with hard work and dedication we can transform our abilities into something graceful and natural."

— Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, Peak

"If a man wakes up famous, he hasn't been sleeping."

— Wes Izzard

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

— Mark Caine

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

— Leonardo da Vinci

"But today well lived, makes every yesterday a memory of happiness"

— Unknown

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."

— Walter Lipman

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

— Benjamin Franklin

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

— Cass, Lewis

"To industry, nothing is impossible."

— Latin proverb

"I know the price of success: dedication,'hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"In all human affairs there are efforts, there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the results."

— James Allen

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

— Eleanor Roosevelt