Motivational Quotes

Action

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

- Crow, Trammell

Best Quotes about Action

1.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

2.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

3.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

4.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

5.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

6.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

7.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

8.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

9.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

10.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

14.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

16.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

17.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

18.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

20.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

21.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

22.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

23.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

24.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

26.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

27.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

28.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

29.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

31.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

33.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

34.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

35.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

36.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

37.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

38.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

39.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

41.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

43.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

44.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

45.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

46.

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

Cass, Lewis

47.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

48.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

50.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor