Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Action

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

James, William

10.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

13.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

14.

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

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

21.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

22.

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

23.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

24.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

28.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

29.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

30.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

31.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

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

Holtz, Lou

33.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

34.

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

Saying, Zen

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

36.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

37.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Heine, Heinrich

39.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

40.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

42.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

44.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

45.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

46.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

47.

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

48.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, English