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.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

2.

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

Allen, Loius A.

3.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

4.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

5.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

6.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

7.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

8.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

9.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

10.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

11.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

12.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

13.

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

14.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

15.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

16.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

17.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

18.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

20.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

22.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

23.

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

24.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

27.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

28.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

James, William

31.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

34.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

35.

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

Grant, Heber J.

36.

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

37.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

38.

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

Shirley, James

39.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

40.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

41.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

42.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

43.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

44.

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

Milea, Jinx

45.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.