Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Wilde, Oscar

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Grant, Heber J.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

11.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

12.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

13.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

14.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

15.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

16.

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

Smith, Liz

17.

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

Milea, Jinx

18.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

19.

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

20.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

21.

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

22.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

23.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

25.

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

Proverb, Ibo

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

28.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

30.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

32.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

33.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

34.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

35.

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

36.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

40.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

41.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

45.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

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

Bible

47.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

48.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

49.

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

50.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb