Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Graffiti

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Wanamaker, John

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

6.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

7.

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

Bible

8.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

9.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Do it now. Then it's done.

11.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

13.

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

Proverb, Ibo

14.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

15.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

17.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

18.

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

19.

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

20.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

21.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

22.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

23.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

24.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

25.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

27.

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

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

30.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

The only way to start is to start.

33.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

34.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

35.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

36.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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.

42.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

43.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

44.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

46.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

48.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

49.

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

Edwards, Edward

50.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges