Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

2.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

3.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

4.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

5.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

6.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

7.

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

8.

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

9.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

10.

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

12.

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

13.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

15.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

17.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

19.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

24.

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

Company, Lanes

25.

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

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

30.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

31.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

33.

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

Horace

34.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

35.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

36.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

39.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

42.

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

43.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

44.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

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

Smith, Sydney

46.

The greatest step is out the door.