Motivational Quotes

Action

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

3.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

4.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

5.

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

Rogers, Will

6.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

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

8.

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

Bible

9.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

11.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

12.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

13.

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

Evans, Richard L.

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

16.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

17.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

18.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

22.

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

23.

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

Shirley, James

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

26.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

27.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

28.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

29.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

30.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

31.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

33.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

34.

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

35.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

38.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Mexican

42.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

43.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

44.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

46.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

47.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

49.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.