Motivational Quotes

Action

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Horace

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Milea, Jinx

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

10.

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

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

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

Auerbach, Red

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

15.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

16.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

17.

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

Milne, A. A.

18.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

19.

Do it now. Then it's done.

20.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

22.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

23.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

24.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Lord, Shirley

27.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

28.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

29.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

33.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

35.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

37.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Lowenstein, John

39.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

40.

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

Grant, Heber J.

41.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

42.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

43.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

44.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

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

49.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

50.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman