Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lu Xun

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

10.

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

Holtz, Lou

11.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

12.

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

Company, Lanes

13.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

20.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

21.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Buffett, Warren

27.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

28.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

29.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

31.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

32.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

33.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

38.

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

39.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

40.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

46.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

47.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

48.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

49.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

50.

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