Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Batt, Al

Best Quotes about Action

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

10.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

12.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

13.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

14.

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

15.

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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

21.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

22.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

23.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

24.

The only way to start is to start.

25.

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

26.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

30.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

31.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

32.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

33.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

34.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

35.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

36.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

39.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

40.

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

41.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

42.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

43.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

46.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

47.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

48.

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

Arendt, Hannah

49.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

50.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.