Motivational Quotes

Action

You will never win if you never begin.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

2.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

3.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

4.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

5.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

6.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

7.

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

Hubbard, Kin

8.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

9.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

10.

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

11.

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

Grant, Heber J.

12.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

13.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Howells, William Dean

18.

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

Shirley, James

19.

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

20.

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

Brown, Les

21.

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

22.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

28.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

29.

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

Warford, Rita

30.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

31.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

35.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

36.

Action is character.

37.

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

Auerbach, Red

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

40.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

42.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

43.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

46.

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

Levi, Peter

47.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

48.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

49.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

50.

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

Mencken, H. L.