Motivational Quotes

Action

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

2.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

4.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

5.

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

Gide, Andre

6.

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

Pancoast, Mal

7.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

Allen, Loius A.

9.

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

10.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

13.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

14.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

17.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

19.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

22.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

23.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

25.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

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

27.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

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

29.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

30.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

31.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

33.

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

34.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

35.

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

Saying, Zen

36.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

38.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

39.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

40.

Act, don't react!

41.

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

42.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

44.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Proverb, Mexican

46.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

47.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

48.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

49.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

50.

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