Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

2.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

3.

Action is character.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

7.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

8.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

9.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

10.

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

11.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

12.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

17.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

18.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Horace

23.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

24.

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

25.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

26.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

30.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

31.

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.

32.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

33.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

35.

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

Levi, Peter

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

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

Croce, Benedetto

38.

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

James, William

39.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

41.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

43.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

44.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

45.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

46.

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

47.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

49.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

50.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.