Motivational Quotes

Action

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Action

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Bible

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Marjorie

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

10.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

11.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

12.

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

13.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

14.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

18.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

19.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

20.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

21.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

25.

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

26.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

27.

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

Bible

28.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

29.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

30.

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

Sandburg, Carl

31.

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

32.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

34.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

35.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

36.

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

Iacocca, Lee

37.

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

38.

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

39.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

40.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

42.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Viscott, David

45.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

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

48.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

49.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

50.

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