Motivational Quotes

Action

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

- Lu Xun

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

3.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

5.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

6.

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

Einstein, Albert

7.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

8.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

9.

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

Smiles, Samuel

10.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

11.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

14.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

15.

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

16.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

17.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

18.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

19.

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

20.

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

21.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

22.

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

23.

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

24.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

25.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

26.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

27.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

28.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

30.

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

31.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

32.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

34.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Evans, Richard L.

36.

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

Saying, Zen

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Balzac, Honore De

39.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

43.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

45.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

46.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

47.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

50.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.