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

Goethe

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Buddha

Action conquers fear.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Charles F. Kettering

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

Diana Trilling

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

Stephen Covey

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

J.M. Power

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

George Bernard Shaw

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Jules Renard

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.

Erma Bombeck

A little knowledge that acts, is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Khalil Gibran

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King