Motivational Quotes

Action

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

3.

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

Hubbard, Kin

4.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

5.

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

Smith, Liz

6.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

7.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

8.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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

10.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

11.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

12.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

15.

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

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Sandburg, Carl

17.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

18.

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

19.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

20.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

21.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

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

23.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

24.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

25.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

26.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

27.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

28.

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

Crow, Trammell

29.

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

Grant, Heber J.

30.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

34.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

36.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

37.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

38.

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

39.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

40.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

41.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

42.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

44.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

47.

Action expresses priorities.