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.

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

2.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

3.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

4.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

5.

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

Rogers, Will

6.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

7.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

8.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

9.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

10.

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

11.

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

Carrel, Alexis

12.

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

Holtz, Lou

13.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

16.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

17.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

18.

Action is character.

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

21.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

22.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

23.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

24.

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

Evans, Richard L.

25.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

27.

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

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

32.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

33.

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

Macdonald, George

34.

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

35.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

36.

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

37.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

38.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

39.

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

Bible

40.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

43.

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

44.

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

45.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

46.

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

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

50.

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