Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roger, John

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

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

10.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

11.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

13.

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

14.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

18.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

19.

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

Proverb

20.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

23.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

24.

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

25.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

28.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

31.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

34.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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

38.

The only way to start is to start.

39.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

40.

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

Proverb, Ibo

41.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

45.

Act, don't react!

46.

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

47.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

48.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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