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.

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.

2.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

3.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

4.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

6.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

7.

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

Hill, Napoleon

8.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

9.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

12.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

16.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

17.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

18.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Bible

26.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

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

28.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

34.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

38.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

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

Croce, Benedetto

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

42.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

43.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

45.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

46.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

47.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

48.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

49.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

50.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett