Motivational Quotes

Action

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about 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

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

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Mann, Horace

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

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

10.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Sandburg, Carl

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

15.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

16.

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

Troward, Thomas

17.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

18.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

19.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

20.

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

Holtz, Lou

21.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

22.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

24.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

25.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Holtz, Lou

27.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

28.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

29.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

31.

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

32.

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

Macdonald, George

33.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

34.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

35.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

36.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

37.

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

Graffiti

38.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

39.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

42.

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

43.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

46.

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

47.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

49.

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

50.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen