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.

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

2.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

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

Proverb, Mexican

4.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

6.

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.

7.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

8.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

9.

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

10.

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

11.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

12.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

13.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

14.

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

Carrel, Alexis

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Wanamaker, John

19.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

20.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

21.

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

22.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

23.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

24.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

25.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

26.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

27.

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

James, William

28.

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.

29.

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

Liter, James

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

32.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

33.

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

Sandburg, Carl

34.

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

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

40.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

41.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

43.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

44.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

46.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

47.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

48.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.