Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

10.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

12.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

13.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

14.

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

Bible

15.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

16.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

17.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

18.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Batt, Al

20.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

22.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

23.

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.

24.

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

Courteline, Georges

25.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

28.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

29.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

30.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

32.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

33.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

34.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

35.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

39.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

40.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

41.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

42.

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

43.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

44.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

46.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

47.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

48.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

50.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.