Motivational Quotes

Action

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Action

1.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

2.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

3.

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

James, William

4.

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

5.

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

Grant, Heber J.

6.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

7.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

8.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

9.

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

Bowkett, Chris

10.

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

11.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

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

Proverb, German

16.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

23.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

24.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

25.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

26.

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

Riley, Pat

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

30.

Act, don't react!

31.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

32.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

34.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Einstein, Albert

37.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

42.

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

Smith, Liz

43.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

44.

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

Quarles, Francis

45.

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

Horace

46.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

47.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

49.

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

Troward, Thomas

50.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.