Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

2.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

3.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

4.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

5.

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

Angelou, Maya

6.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

7.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

8.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

9.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

10.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

11.

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

Roger, John

12.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

13.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

14.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

18.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

21.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

22.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

24.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

25.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

26.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Troward, Thomas

31.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

32.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

33.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

34.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

35.

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

36.

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

37.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

38.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

42.

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

43.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

45.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

46.

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

Lord, Shirley

47.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

48.

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