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.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

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.

3.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

4.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

5.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

6.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

7.

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

8.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

9.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

10.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

11.

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

Roger, John

12.

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

Saunders

13.

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

Carrel, Alexis

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Cass, Lewis

16.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

Grant, Heber J.

20.

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

21.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

22.

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

Marley, Bob

23.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

24.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

27.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

28.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

30.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

31.

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

32.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

34.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

35.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

36.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

40.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

44.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

45.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.