Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

1.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

2.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

3.

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

James, William

4.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

5.

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

6.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

7.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

8.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

13.

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

Aikman, Leo

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

20.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

23.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

24.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

25.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Galsworthy, John

28.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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.

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

Graffiti

32.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

33.

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

34.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

35.

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

36.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

37.

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

38.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

39.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

40.

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

Howells, William Dean

41.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

42.

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

Horace

43.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

44.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

46.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

47.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

48.

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

South, Bishop Robert

49.

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