Motivational Quotes

Action

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

1.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

2.

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

3.

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

Einstein, Albert

4.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

5.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

6.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

7.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

12.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

13.

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

Levin, James

14.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

19.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Do it now. Then it's done.

21.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

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.

23.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

29.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

30.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

32.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

33.

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

Proverb, Mexican

34.

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

35.

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

36.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

37.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

38.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

40.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

43.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

46.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

47.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

48.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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