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.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

2.

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

3.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

4.

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.

5.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

6.

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

Dyer, Wayne

7.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

8.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

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

Allen, Loius A.

10.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

11.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

12.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

13.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Do it now. Then it's done.

15.

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

16.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

17.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

20.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

21.

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.

22.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

23.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

24.

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

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

26.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

27.

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

Smith, Liz

28.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

29.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

30.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Troward, Thomas

32.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

33.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

34.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

36.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

37.

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

38.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

Sandburg, Carl

41.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

42.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

43.

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

Grant, Heber J.

44.

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

Quarles, Francis

45.

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

46.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

47.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

48.

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

Proverb, English

49.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

50.

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