Motivational Quotes

Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Saunders

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

10.

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

11.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

12.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

14.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

15.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, German

18.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

20.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

22.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

23.

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

Ennius, Quintus

24.

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

Smith, Sydney

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

27.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

28.

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

29.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

31.

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

Croce, Benedetto

32.

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

33.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

34.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

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

Balzac, Honore De

36.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

Horace

38.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

39.

Do it now. Then it's done.

40.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

41.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

42.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

46.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

47.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

49.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John