Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Rogers, Will

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

12.

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

13.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

14.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

15.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

16.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

17.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

18.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

21.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

24.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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

Iacocca, Lee

26.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

27.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

28.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

29.

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

30.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

31.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

32.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

33.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

34.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

35.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

36.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

40.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

43.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

44.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

45.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

46.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

47.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

48.

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

Buffett, Warren

49.

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

Green, Dennis