Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Holtz, Lou

2.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

3.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

5.

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

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

Buffett, Warren

7.

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

8.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

9.

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

10.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

11.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

17.

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

Heine, Heinrich

18.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

19.

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

20.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

21.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

22.

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

Company, Lanes

23.

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

24.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

25.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

26.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

29.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

30.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

31.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

32.

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

Wanamaker, John

33.

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

34.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

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

Arendt, Hannah

36.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

37.

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

South, Bishop Robert

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

42.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

43.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

44.

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

45.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

46.

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

Graffiti

47.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

48.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

49.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

50.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.