Motivational Quotes

Action

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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.

2.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

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

4.

Action is character.

5.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

6.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

7.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

9.

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

10.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

11.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

12.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

16.

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

17.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

18.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

19.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

20.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Holtz, Lou

24.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

29.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

30.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

31.

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

Courteline, Georges

32.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Balzac, Honore De

34.

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

Pancoast, Mal

35.

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.

36.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

37.

One of the marks of a 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

38.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

40.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

43.

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

44.

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

Hazlitt, William

45.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

46.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

47.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

48.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

What you are will show in what you do.