Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

3.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

4.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

5.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

6.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

7.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

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

Quarles, Francis

9.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

12.

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

Holtz, Lou

13.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

14.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

16.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

19.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

20.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

22.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

27.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

28.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Graffiti

30.

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

Bowkett, Chris

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

35.

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

36.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

37.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

38.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

41.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

42.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Howells, William Dean

46.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

47.

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

Ovid

48.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

50.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.