Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sandburg, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

2.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

3.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

4.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

6.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

7.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

8.

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

9.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Graffiti

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

14.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

15.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

Smith, Liz

17.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

18.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

19.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

20.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

21.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

22.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

23.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

29.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

30.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

31.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

32.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

33.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

35.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

36.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

38.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

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.

40.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

41.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

42.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

43.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

45.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

46.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

47.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

49.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

50.

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