Motivational Quotes

Action

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Sandburg, Carl

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

Pauling, Linus

4.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

5.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

6.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

7.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

8.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

10.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

12.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

13.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

14.

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

Picasso, Pablo

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

20.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

23.

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

Holtz, Lou

24.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

25.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

29.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

36.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

37.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

40.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

41.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

42.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

44.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

45.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

46.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

47.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

49.

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

50.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.