Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Bible

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

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

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

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

11.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

12.

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

Smith, Liz

13.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

14.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

18.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

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

21.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

22.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

23.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

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

Smiles, Samuel

25.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

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

29.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

32.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

33.

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

Proverb, Ibo

34.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

35.

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

36.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

37.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

38.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

39.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

40.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

41.

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.

42.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

43.

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

Wanamaker, John

44.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

46.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

47.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

48.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

49.

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

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German