Motivational Quotes

Action

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Action

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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.

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

Proverb, English

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

12.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Italian

15.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

20.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

23.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

24.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

25.

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

26.

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

27.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

28.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

29.

The only way to start is to start.

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

35.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

37.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

38.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

43.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

46.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

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

Proverb, Irish

48.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, German