Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sandburg, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

1.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

2.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

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

Einstein, Albert

4.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

5.

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

6.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

7.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

8.

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

9.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

10.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

11.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

12.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

15.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

16.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

18.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Saying, Zen

24.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

25.

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

Picasso, Pablo

26.

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

Balzac, Honore De

27.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

28.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

29.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

32.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

34.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

35.

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

Lowenstein, John

36.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

37.

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

Saunders

38.

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

39.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

Iacocca, Lee

41.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

42.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

43.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

44.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

45.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

46.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

47.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich