Motivational Quotes

Action

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

2.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

3.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

4.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

5.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

6.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

9.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

10.

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.

Canfield, Jack

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

15.

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

Wanamaker, John

16.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

17.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

18.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

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

20.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

21.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

22.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

23.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

24.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

26.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Courteline, Georges

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

31.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

32.

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

33.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

36.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

37.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Pauling, Linus

39.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

40.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

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