Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Bible

3.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

4.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

5.

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

Quarles, Francis

6.

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

Levi, Peter

7.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

8.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

9.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

10.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

16.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

17.

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

18.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

19.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

20.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

21.

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

Galsworthy, John

22.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

23.

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

Shirley, James

24.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

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

26.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

27.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

28.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

29.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

31.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

35.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

36.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

37.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

39.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

40.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

44.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

45.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

48.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

49.

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

Robbins, Anthony

50.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.