Motivational Quotes

Action

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

10.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

12.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

13.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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.

15.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

17.

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

Ovid

18.

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

Wanamaker, John

19.

Do it now. Then it's done.

20.

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

Bowkett, Chris

21.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

24.

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

Saunders

25.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

26.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

27.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

28.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

31.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

32.

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

Levin, James

33.

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

Arendt, Hannah

34.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

35.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

37.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

38.

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.

39.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

41.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

42.

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

43.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

45.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

46.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Dyer, Wayne