Motivational Quotes

Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Hubbard, Kin

2.

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

3.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

4.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

5.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

6.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

7.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

8.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

9.

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

10.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

11.

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

12.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

13.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

15.

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

16.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

17.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

19.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

20.

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.

21.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

22.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

23.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

24.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

26.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

27.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Company, Lanes

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

32.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

33.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

34.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

35.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

36.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

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

James, William

38.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

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

41.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

42.

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

Balzac, Honore De

43.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

44.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

46.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.