Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

2.

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

Ovid

3.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

4.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

5.

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

Liter, James

6.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

7.

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.

8.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

9.

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

Proverb, English

10.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

11.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Wanamaker, John

13.

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

14.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

15.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

16.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

17.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

18.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

19.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

21.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

22.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

23.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

26.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

27.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

30.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

31.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

32.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

33.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

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

35.

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

Milne, A. A.

36.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

41.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

46.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

48.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

49.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

50.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl