Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

3.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

4.

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

5.

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

Wordsworth, William

6.

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

7.

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

South, Bishop Robert

8.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

13.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Hasselhoff, David

18.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

19.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

20.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

22.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

23.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

25.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

26.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

27.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

Batt, Al

29.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

31.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

32.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

33.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

35.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

36.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

37.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

38.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

42.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

44.

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

Graffiti

45.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

46.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

47.

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

48.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

49.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

50.

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