Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

James, William

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Milne, A. A.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

13.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

14.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

15.

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

16.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

17.

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

18.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Sandburg, Carl

20.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

21.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

24.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

25.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

26.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

27.

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

29.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Act, don't react!

31.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

32.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

33.

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

Mann, Horace

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

38.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

42.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

43.

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

44.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

46.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

48.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.