Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

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

Picasso, Pablo

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Maharshi, Ramana

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Troward, Thomas

10.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

11.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

12.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

15.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

16.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

18.

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

Graffiti

19.

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

Smiles, Samuel

20.

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

21.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

23.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

24.

The only way to start is to start.

25.

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

26.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

29.

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

30.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Wanamaker, John

33.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Smith, Sydney

38.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

39.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

40.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

41.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

42.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

43.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

44.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

45.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

46.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

47.

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

Holtz, Lou

48.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

49.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

50.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles