Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Quarles, Francis

2.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

3.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

6.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

7.

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

Bible

8.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

9.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

14.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

15.

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

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

18.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

20.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

26.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

27.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

28.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

30.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

31.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

32.

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

Bible

33.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

35.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

39.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

40.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

41.

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

Levin, James

42.

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

43.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

44.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

46.

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