Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Action

1.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

2.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

3.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

5.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

6.

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

7.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

8.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

9.

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

10.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

11.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

12.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

14.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

15.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

16.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

17.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

18.

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

19.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

20.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

22.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

23.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

24.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

25.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

26.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

28.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

29.

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

30.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

31.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

32.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

33.

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

34.

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

Milea, Jinx

35.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

40.

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

41.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

43.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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