Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Action

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Do it now. Then it's done.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

Act, don't react!

15.

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

Levin, James

16.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

17.

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

18.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

19.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

20.

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

21.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

22.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

23.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

24.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

26.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

27.

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

28.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

30.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

31.

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

Carrel, Alexis

32.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

33.

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

34.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

35.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

38.

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

39.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

40.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

41.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

42.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

43.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

44.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

45.

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

Pauling, Linus

46.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

47.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

49.

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

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

Einstein, Albert