Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Ross, Percy

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

Roger, John

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

Act, don't react!

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

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

10.

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

11.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

12.

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

Levi, Peter

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

15.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

16.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

17.

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

18.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

20.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

22.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

23.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

24.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

28.

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

29.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

32.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

33.

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

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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

35.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

36.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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

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

Proverb, English

39.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

40.

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

Confucius

41.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

42.

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

43.

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

Cass, Lewis

44.

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

45.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

50.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese