Motivational Quotes

Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

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

5.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

6.

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

Smiles, Samuel

7.

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

8.

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

Sandburg, Carl

9.

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

Ovid

10.

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

11.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

12.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

13.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

14.

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

Smith, Liz

15.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

19.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

20.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

21.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

23.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

24.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

25.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Confucius

29.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

31.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

32.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

33.

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

Cass, Lewis

34.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

36.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

37.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

38.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

39.

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

Bowkett, Chris

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

Liter, James

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

46.

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

47.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

48.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

49.

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

Wanamaker, John

50.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.