Motivational Quotes

Action

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Eliot, George

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

10.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

11.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

13.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

14.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Marley, Bob

20.

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

21.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

22.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

23.

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

Wordsworth, William

24.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

25.

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.

26.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

29.

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

30.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

33.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

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

35.

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

Milne, A. A.

36.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

37.

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

Grant, Heber J.

38.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Irish

43.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

44.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

45.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

46.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

48.

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

49.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

50.

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