Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

3.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

4.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

5.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

6.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

7.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

8.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

10.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

11.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

12.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

13.

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

14.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

19.

The only way to start is to start.

20.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

21.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

22.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

23.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

24.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

26.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

27.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

28.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

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

30.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

31.

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

32.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

33.

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

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

36.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

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

42.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

43.

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

Proverb, Mexican

44.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

45.

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

46.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

47.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

48.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

49.

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

Quarles, Francis

50.

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