Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Action

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

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

12.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

13.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

14.

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

Proverb, German

15.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

17.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

18.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

19.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

20.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

21.

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

Carrel, Alexis

22.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

24.

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

25.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

26.

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

Confucius

27.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

28.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

29.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

31.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

32.

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.

33.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

35.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

36.

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

37.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

38.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

39.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

43.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

44.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

46.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

47.

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.

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert