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.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

2.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

3.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

4.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

5.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

6.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

7.

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

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Marley, Bob

10.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

11.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

14.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

15.

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

16.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Pauling, Linus

19.

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

20.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

21.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

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

24.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

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

Hubbard, Kin

30.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

32.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

33.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

34.

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

Proverb, Mexican

35.

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

36.

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

Green, Dennis

37.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

39.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

40.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

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

43.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

44.

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

45.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

46.

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

Balzac, Honore De

47.

Act, don't react!

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar