Motivational Quotes

Action

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Action

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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

Buffett, Warren

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

11.

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

12.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

13.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

16.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

17.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

18.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Smith, Liz

21.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

22.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

23.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Levi, Peter

25.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

26.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

27.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

28.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

29.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

30.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

33.

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

Warford, Rita

34.

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

Batt, Al

35.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

38.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

39.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

41.

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

42.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

43.

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

44.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.