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

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Action is character.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

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

13.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

14.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

15.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

18.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Gerstner, Lou

21.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

23.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

24.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

25.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

26.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

27.

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

28.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

30.

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

Iacocca, Lee

31.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

33.

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

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

38.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Horace

40.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

41.

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

42.

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

Macdonald, George

43.

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

Proverb, Mexican

44.

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

Arendt, Hannah

45.

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

46.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

47.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

49.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von