Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

2.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

4.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

5.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

7.

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

Milea, Jinx

8.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

9.

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

Allen, Loius A.

10.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

13.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

14.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

17.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

18.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

19.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Sandburg, Carl

21.

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

22.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

33.

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

34.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

35.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

36.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

39.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

40.

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.

41.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

43.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

44.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

46.

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

47.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

49.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

50.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean