Motivational Quotes

Action

To begin, begin.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Action

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Galsworthy, John

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

10.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

12.

Act, don't react!

13.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

14.

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

15.

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

Smiles, Samuel

16.

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

Sandburg, Carl

17.

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

18.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

25.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

27.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

28.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

29.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

31.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

32.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

38.

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

39.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

41.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

43.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

44.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

45.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

46.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

49.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Greene, Robert