Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Iacocca, Lee

2.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

3.

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

Wilde, Oscar

4.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

5.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

6.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

7.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

8.

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

Einstein, Albert

9.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

10.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

13.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

14.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

15.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

17.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

18.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

21.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

22.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

23.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

24.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

27.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

29.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Sher, Barbara

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

34.

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

Howells, William Dean

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

37.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.