Motivational Quotes

Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

- Curcio, Joan L.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

7.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

8.

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

9.

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

Sher, Barbara

11.

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

12.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

13.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

17.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

18.

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

Saying, Zen

19.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

22.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Ross, Percy

24.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

25.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

29.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

30.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

34.

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

35.

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

Rogers, Will

36.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

38.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

39.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

42.

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

Ovid

43.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

45.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

46.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

50.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael