Motivational Quotes

Action

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Sher, Barbara

2.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

3.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

4.

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

Ovid

5.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

Do it now. Then it's done.

7.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

8.

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

9.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Horace

12.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

13.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

14.

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

15.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Quarles, Francis

17.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

18.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

21.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

22.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

24.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

25.

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

Smiles, Samuel

26.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

27.

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

Milea, Jinx

28.

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.

29.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

32.

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

Ovid

33.

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

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

36.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

40.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

41.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

42.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

43.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

44.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

46.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

47.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

48.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

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

50.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio