Motivational Quotes

Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

2.

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

3.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

4.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

5.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

7.

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

8.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

9.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

10.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

11.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

Milea, Jinx

17.

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

Edwards, Edward

18.

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

19.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

20.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

21.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

22.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

25.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

26.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

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.

29.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

30.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

31.

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

Graffiti

32.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

33.

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

Company, Lanes

34.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Macdonald, George

36.

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

37.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

38.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

40.

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