Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

2.

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

3.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

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

5.

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

6.

The only way to start is to start.

7.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

10.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

12.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

13.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

14.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

22.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

23.

Act, don't react!

24.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

27.

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

28.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

29.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

31.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

32.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

33.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

36.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

37.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

38.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

39.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Rogers, Will

41.

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

Holtz, Lou

42.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

43.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

45.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

46.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

48.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Dyer, Wayne

50.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor