Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

- Green, Dennis

Best Quotes about Action

1.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

2.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

3.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

5.

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

Rogers, Will

6.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

8.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

9.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

10.

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

11.

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

Carrel, Alexis

12.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

16.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

17.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

18.

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

Arendt, Hannah

19.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

23.

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

Buffett, Warren

24.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

25.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

26.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

27.

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

28.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

30.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

35.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

36.

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

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.