Motivational Quotes

Action

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

2.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

3.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

4.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

5.

Do it now. Then it's done.

6.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

7.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.

Action is character.

10.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Courteline, Georges

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

15.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

20.

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

Green, Dennis

21.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

22.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

24.

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

Wanamaker, John

25.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

26.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Viscott, David

30.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

Bowkett, Chris

32.

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

33.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

34.

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

Ennius, Quintus

35.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

37.

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