Taking Action Quotes

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

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

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

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

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.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.