Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Allen, Loius A.

4.

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

5.

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

Grant, Heber J.

6.

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

Einstein, Albert

7.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

8.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

9.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

10.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

11.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

16.

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

17.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

19.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

22.

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

23.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

25.

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

Bible

26.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

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

James, William

29.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

30.

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

31.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

33.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

34.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

35.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

36.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

37.

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

Buffett, Warren

38.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

39.

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

Troward, Thomas

40.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

42.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

43.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

44.

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

Proverb, Mexican

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

Let your performance do the thinking.