Motivational Quotes

Action

The only way to start is to start.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Proverb, Mexican

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

10.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

13.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Saying, Zen

16.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

19.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

20.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Horace

25.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

26.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

27.

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

28.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

31.

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

32.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

33.

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

34.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

The only way to start is to start.

36.

Do it now. Then it's done.

37.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

38.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

43.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Bible

46.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

47.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

48.

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

Milne, A. A.

49.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

50.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett