Motivational Quotes

Action

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

- Lord, Shirley

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

2.

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

Green, Dennis

3.

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

4.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

5.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

6.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

9.

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

Saying, Zen

10.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

14.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

15.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

18.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Milne, A. A.

21.

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

Pauling, Linus

22.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

23.

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

24.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

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

26.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

27.

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

28.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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.

31.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

33.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

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.

35.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

38.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

39.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

40.

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

41.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

42.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

43.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

44.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

45.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

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

Shirley, James

47.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

48.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo