Motivational Quotes

Action

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

10.

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

Milne, A. A.

11.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

12.

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

Mann, Horace

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

17.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

18.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

20.

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

Holtz, Lou

21.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

25.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

26.

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

Hasselhoff, David

27.

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

28.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

30.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

31.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

32.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

33.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

34.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

35.

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

Batt, Al

36.

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

Bible

37.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

39.

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

Roger, John

40.

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

41.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

42.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

43.

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.

44.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

50.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert