Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Hasselhoff, David

12.

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.

13.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

14.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

16.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

17.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Howells, William Dean

19.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

20.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

21.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

22.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

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

Milne, A. A.

24.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

28.

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

James, William

29.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

31.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

32.

Action is character.

33.

Do it now. Then it's done.

34.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

35.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

40.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Smith, Liz

44.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

45.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

47.

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

Holtz, Lou

48.

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