Motivational Quotes

Action

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Action

1.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

2.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

3.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

4.

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

5.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

6.

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

Proverb, Chinese

7.

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

8.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

9.

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

10.

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

Hasselhoff, David

11.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

14.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

16.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

17.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

18.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

19.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

20.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

22.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

23.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

25.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

26.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Ennius, Quintus

28.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

29.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

31.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

32.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

33.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

34.

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

35.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

36.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

37.

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

Marley, Bob

38.

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

39.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

41.

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

42.

Action is character.

43.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

44.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

45.

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

Bible

46.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

49.

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

Rogers, Will

50.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William