Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Company, Lanes

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Sher, Barbara

10.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

11.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

16.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

The only way to start is to start.

22.

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

23.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

24.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

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

27.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

28.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

29.

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

Milea, Jinx

30.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

31.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

32.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

33.

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.

34.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, French

37.

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

38.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

39.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

40.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

41.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

42.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

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

Troward, Thomas

45.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

46.

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

47.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Carrel, Alexis

49.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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.