Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

4.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

5.

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

Croce, Benedetto

6.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

8.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

9.

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

Iacocca, Lee

10.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

11.

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

12.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

13.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

14.

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

Bible

15.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

16.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

17.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Marley, Bob

19.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

20.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

21.

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

22.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

23.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

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

25.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

27.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

30.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

31.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

32.

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

33.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Do it now. Then it's done.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Grant, Heber J.

38.

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.

39.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

40.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

41.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

42.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

43.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

45.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

46.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

47.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

48.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

49.

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

Proverb, German

50.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas