Motivational Quotes

Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Saying, Zen

2.

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

Hasselhoff, David

3.

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

4.

The only way to start is to start.

5.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

6.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

7.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

8.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

9.

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

Liter, James

10.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

11.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

12.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

14.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

15.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

16.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

17.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

Iacocca, Lee

20.

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

21.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

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

Aikman, Leo

23.

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

24.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

27.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

28.

Act, don't react!

29.

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

James, William

30.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

34.

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

Levi, Peter

35.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

37.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

38.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

39.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

47.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

48.

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