Motivational Quotes

Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Marley, Bob

2.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

3.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

4.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

5.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

6.

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

7.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

8.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

9.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

10.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

13.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

19.

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

Wanamaker, John

20.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

21.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

22.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

23.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

24.

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

Wordsworth, William

25.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

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

27.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Sandburg, Carl

29.

Act, don't react!

30.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

31.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

32.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

33.

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.

34.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

35.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

38.

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

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

40.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

41.

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

42.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

43.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

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

Milne, A. A.

45.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

46.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

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

48.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

49.

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

Proverb, English

50.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis