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

1.

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

Graffiti

2.

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

3.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

4.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

5.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Mann, Horace

8.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

9.

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

10.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

12.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

13.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

14.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

15.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

16.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

17.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

22.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

23.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

24.

Do it now. Then it's done.

25.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

26.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

27.

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

Milne, A. A.

28.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

29.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

Troward, Thomas

31.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

32.

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

Sher, Barbara

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

35.

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

Cass, Lewis

36.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

James, William

38.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

39.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

40.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

41.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

42.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

46.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

49.

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

50.

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

Smith, Sydney