Motivational Quotes

Action

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Bible

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

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Heine, Heinrich

10.

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

Liter, James

11.

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

Warford, Rita

12.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

13.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

17.

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.

18.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

22.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

23.

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

24.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

27.

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

Graffiti

28.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

29.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

30.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

31.

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

32.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

33.

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

Ovid

34.

One of the marks of a 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

35.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

36.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

41.

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

42.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

43.

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

44.

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

45.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

46.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

47.

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

48.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.