Motivational Quotes

Action

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Hubbard, Kin

2.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

4.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

5.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

6.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

7.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

8.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

9.

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

10.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

11.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

12.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

13.

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.

14.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

17.

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

18.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

19.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

20.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

21.

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

Mann, Horace

22.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

23.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

24.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

26.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

28.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

29.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

31.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

32.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

34.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

35.

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.

36.

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

Marley, Bob

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

39.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

40.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

44.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

46.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

47.

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

48.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

49.

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

50.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von