Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

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

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

18.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Levi, Peter

20.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

21.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

22.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

24.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

25.

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

26.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

27.

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

28.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

29.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Bible

33.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

37.

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

Sher, Barbara

38.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

39.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Bible

42.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.