Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

1.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

2.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

3.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

4.

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

5.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

6.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

7.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

8.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

9.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

10.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

11.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

12.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

13.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

14.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

15.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

16.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

17.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

18.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

20.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

21.

The only way to start is to start.

22.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

23.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

24.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

25.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

26.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

27.

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

28.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

29.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

30.

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

31.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

32.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

33.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

35.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

36.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

39.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

40.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

43.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

46.

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

47.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

49.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

50.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of