Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Hubbard, Kin

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

12.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Rohn, Jim

15.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

17.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

18.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Bible

21.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

22.

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

Ovid

23.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

24.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

25.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

26.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

27.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

28.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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.

30.

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

Holtz, Lou

31.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

32.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

36.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

38.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

39.

Do it now. Then it's done.

40.

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

Galsworthy, John

41.

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

Marley, Bob

42.

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

43.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

44.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

45.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

46.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.