Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

1.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

2.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

3.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

4.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

5.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

6.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

7.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

11.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

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

14.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

15.

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

16.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

17.

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

18.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

19.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

20.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

21.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

22.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

23.

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

Proverb, Ibo

24.

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.

25.

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

Saying, Zen

26.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Proverb, American

28.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

29.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

30.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

34.

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

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Wanamaker, John

38.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

39.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

41.

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

James, William

42.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

43.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

44.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Iacocca, Lee

46.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

48.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

49.

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

50.

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

Eliot, George