Motivational Quotes

Action

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

- Letterman, Elmer G.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

2.

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

Bible

3.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

4.

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

5.

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

Graffiti

6.

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

7.

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

8.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Courteline, Georges

11.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

12.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

13.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

14.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

15.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

16.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

17.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Bowkett, Chris

19.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

20.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

21.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

22.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

24.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

25.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Hasselhoff, David

28.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

29.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

30.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

31.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

32.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

33.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

36.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

37.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

38.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

39.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

40.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

41.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

42.

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

43.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

44.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

45.

He who limps is still walking.