Motivational Quotes

Action

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

Carrel, Alexis

3.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

4.

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

Pancoast, Mal

5.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

6.

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

Smith, Liz

7.

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

Mother Teresa

8.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

9.

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

10.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

11.

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

Graffiti

12.

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

13.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

14.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

15.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

16.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

17.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

18.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

19.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

22.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

23.

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

24.

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

Courteline, Georges

25.

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

Iacocca, Lee

26.

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

27.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

29.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

32.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

34.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

35.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

36.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

38.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

39.

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

40.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

42.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

43.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

44.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

46.

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

Liter, James

47.

Action is character.

48.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

49.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

50.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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