Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

2.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Proverb, Italian

4.

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

5.

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

Sandburg, Carl

6.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

7.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

8.

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

Buffett, Warren

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Roger, John

11.

Action is character.

12.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

13.

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

Sher, Barbara

14.

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

James, William

15.

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

16.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

17.

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.

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Grant, Heber J.

23.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

24.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

25.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

26.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

27.

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

Howells, William Dean

28.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

29.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

32.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

33.

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

34.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

35.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

36.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

37.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

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

Troward, Thomas

41.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

42.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Quarles, Francis

44.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

49.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace