Motivational Quotes

Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Saying, Zen

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

10.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

13.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

14.

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

15.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

20.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

21.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

22.

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

South, Bishop Robert

23.

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

Gerstner, Lou

24.

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

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

27.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

28.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

29.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

30.

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

31.

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

32.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

33.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

34.

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

35.

Act, don't react!

36.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

37.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

38.

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

39.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

43.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

44.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

45.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

47.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

48.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

49.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

50.

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