Motivational Quotes

Action

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

2.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

3.

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

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

Dyer, Wayne

5.

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

6.

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

7.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

8.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

9.

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

Sher, Barbara

10.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

13.

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

14.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

15.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

16.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

17.

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

18.

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

Evans, Richard L.

19.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

20.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

21.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

22.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

23.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

24.

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

Cass, Lewis

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Ovid

27.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

28.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

29.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

30.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

33.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

34.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Ross, Percy

36.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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.

39.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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.

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

48.

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.

49.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

50.

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

Liter, James