Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

2.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

3.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

4.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

5.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

6.

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

7.

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

James, William

8.

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

Arendt, Hannah

9.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

15.

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

Croce, Benedetto

16.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

20.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

22.

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

Smith, Liz

23.

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

Ross, Percy

24.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

25.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

26.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

27.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

28.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

31.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

33.

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

Buffett, Warren

34.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

38.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

39.

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

Company, Lanes

40.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

41.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

44.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

46.

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

47.

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

Balzac, Honore De

48.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

49.

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

50.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William