Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holmes, Marjorie

Best Quotes about Action

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Proverb, English

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Ross, Percy

10.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

16.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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

18.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

19.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

20.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

21.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

24.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

25.

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

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

29.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

31.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

32.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

33.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

34.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

37.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

39.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

44.

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

45.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

49.

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

Sandburg, Carl

50.

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

Pilgrim, Peace