Motivational Quotes

Action

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

- Conwell, Russel H.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Bible

2.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

3.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, English

6.

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

Brown, Les

7.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

8.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

10.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

11.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

15.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

18.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

20.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

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

23.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

24.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

27.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

29.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

33.

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.

34.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

35.

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

36.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

37.

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

Saunders

38.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

39.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.