Motivational Quotes

Action

Act, don't react!

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

3.

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

Einstein, Albert

4.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

5.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

6.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

7.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

8.

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

9.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

10.

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

13.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

14.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

15.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

The only way to start is to start.

20.

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

Warford, Rita

21.

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

Milne, A. A.

22.

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

23.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

James, William

27.

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

28.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

29.

Act, don't react!

30.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

31.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

35.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

39.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

44.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

45.

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

Iacocca, Lee

46.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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