Motivational Quotes

Action

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

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

15.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

16.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

17.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

18.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

19.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

20.

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

21.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

22.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

24.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

26.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

27.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

29.

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

Smith, Sydney

30.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

31.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

32.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

33.

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

Eliot, George

34.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, French

39.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

41.

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

42.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

45.

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

46.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

47.

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

48.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.