Motivational Quotes

Action

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Action

1.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

2.

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

Smith, Sydney

3.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

4.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

5.

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

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb, English

9.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

10.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

11.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Graffiti

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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

17.

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

Crow, Trammell

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

20.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

21.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

22.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

24.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

25.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

Mann, Horace

27.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

28.

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

29.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

33.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

34.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

35.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

36.

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

37.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

38.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

39.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

40.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

43.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

44.

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

Buffett, Warren

45.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

46.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

50.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo