Motivational Quotes

Action

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

- Linall Jr. A. L.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Wilde, Oscar

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

5.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

6.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

7.

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.

8.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

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

11.

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

Heine, Heinrich

12.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

13.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

14.

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

Quarles, Francis

15.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

16.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

17.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

Green, Dennis

23.

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

Evans, Richard L.

24.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

25.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

26.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Carrel, Alexis

28.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

29.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

30.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

32.

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.

33.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

34.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

35.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

36.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

39.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

40.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

42.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

43.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

44.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

45.

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

Milne, A. A.

46.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

47.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

49.

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

50.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou