Motivational Quotes

Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schuller, Robert H.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

10.

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

James, William

11.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

12.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

13.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

15.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

17.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

18.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

19.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

20.

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

Balzac, Honore De

21.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

22.

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

Proverb, Irish

23.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

25.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

26.

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.

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.

Act, don't react!

29.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

Iacocca, Lee

31.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

36.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

37.

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

Quarles, Francis

38.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

41.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

42.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

43.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

44.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

45.

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

Sandburg, Carl

46.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

47.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

49.

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

Smiles, Samuel

50.

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