Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

10.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

11.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

12.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

16.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

17.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

18.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

19.

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

20.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

21.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

22.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

23.

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

24.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

25.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

30.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Smith, Liz

32.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

34.

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

Proverb, Ibo

35.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

38.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

39.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

44.

Do it now. Then it's done.

45.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

47.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin