Motivational Quotes

Action

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

3.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

4.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

5.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

6.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

7.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

8.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

10.

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

Heine, Heinrich

11.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

12.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

13.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

14.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

19.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

24.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

25.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

26.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

28.

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

Smiles, Samuel

29.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

30.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

33.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

34.

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

Holtz, Lou

35.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

36.

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

37.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

38.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

39.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

40.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

41.

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

James, William

42.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

43.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

44.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

45.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

46.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

47.

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

Gerstner, Lou

48.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

49.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

50.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.