Motivational Quotes

Action

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

3.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

4.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

5.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

6.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

7.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

8.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

9.

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

Eliot, George

10.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

11.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

12.

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

Levi, Peter

13.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

14.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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.

16.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

17.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

18.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

20.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

24.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

25.

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

Holcomb, John H.

26.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

27.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

28.

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

29.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

30.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

31.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

32.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

33.

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

Lowenstein, John

34.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

35.

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

36.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

37.

The only way to start is to start.

38.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

39.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

41.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

42.

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

43.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

44.

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

Company, Lanes

45.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.