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.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

2.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

3.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

4.

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

Company, Lanes

5.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Act, don't react!

7.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

8.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

9.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

10.

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

11.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Buffett, Warren

13.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

15.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

18.

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

19.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

20.

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

21.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

22.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

23.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

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

Sandburg, Carl

28.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

29.

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

30.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

34.

Do it now. Then it's done.

35.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

36.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

39.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

40.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte