Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

1.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

2.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

3.

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

4.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

5.

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

Holtz, Lou

6.

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

Bible

7.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

8.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

10.

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.

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

14.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Proverb

16.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

17.

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

18.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

19.

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

20.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

22.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

23.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

25.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

26.

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

Courteline, Georges

27.

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

Warford, Rita

28.

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

29.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

30.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

31.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

32.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

34.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

35.

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

Proverb, Ibo

36.

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

37.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

38.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

39.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

One of the marks of a 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

41.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

43.

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

44.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

45.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo