Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

2.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

3.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

4.

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

Mann, Horace

5.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

6.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

7.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

8.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

9.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

11.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Mexican

14.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

15.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

17.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

19.

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.

20.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

21.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

23.

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

24.

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

Courteline, Georges

25.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

27.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

28.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

29.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

30.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

32.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

33.

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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Ross, Percy

36.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

37.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

39.

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

Green, Dennis

40.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Wanamaker, John

43.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

47.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.