Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

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

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

10.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

11.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

15.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

16.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

17.

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

18.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

21.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

24.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

28.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

30.

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

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

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

Proverb, Italian

37.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

38.

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

Riley, Pat

39.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

41.

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

42.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

44.

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

Company, Lanes

45.

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

Horace

46.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston