Motivational Quotes

Action

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

- Calvin, John

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

2.

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

3.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

4.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

5.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

8.

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

9.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

10.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

16.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

17.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

18.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

19.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

23.

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

24.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

26.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

27.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

28.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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

Sher, Barbara

30.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

31.

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

Crow, Trammell

32.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

33.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

35.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

36.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

38.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

39.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

40.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

41.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

42.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

43.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

Brown, Les

45.

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

46.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

47.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

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

49.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

50.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.