Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Mann, Horace

11.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Crow, Trammell

13.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

14.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

Holtz, Lou

17.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

18.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

19.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

25.

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

26.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

27.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

28.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

29.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

Iacocca, Lee

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

35.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

36.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

39.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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

Arendt, Hannah

42.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

43.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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.

45.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

46.

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

47.

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

48.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

49.

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

50.

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