Motivational Quotes

Action

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

3.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

4.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

5.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

6.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

8.

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

Hill, Napoleon

9.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

10.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

12.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

13.

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

14.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

15.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

17.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

19.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

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

Mann, Horace

21.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

25.

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

26.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

27.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

28.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

29.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

30.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

33.

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

Smith, Sydney

34.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

35.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

36.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

37.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

38.

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

Proverb, Italian

39.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

40.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

45.

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

46.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

47.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

48.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

50.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle