Motivational Quotes

Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Mencken, H. L.

2.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

3.

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

Proverb, English

4.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

5.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

6.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

7.

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

8.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

9.

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

Lord, Shirley

10.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

11.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

12.

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

Proverb, Mexican

13.

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

James, William

14.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

15.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

16.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

20.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

22.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

23.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

26.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

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

Bible

29.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

30.

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

South, Bishop Robert

31.

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

Proverb, Italian

32.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

33.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

36.

Action is character.

37.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

38.

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

39.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

40.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

42.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

43.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

44.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

45.

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

46.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

47.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

48.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

49.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

50.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman