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.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

2.

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

Eliot, George

3.

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

Viscott, David

4.

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

5.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

6.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

7.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

8.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

9.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

10.

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

11.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

17.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

18.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

21.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

22.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

23.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

24.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

25.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

26.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

27.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

Act, don't react!

32.

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

33.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

34.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

35.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

36.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

37.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

38.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

39.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

40.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

41.

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

Rogers, Will

42.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

43.

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

44.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

49.

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

Rohn, Jim

50.

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