Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Marley, Bob

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

2.

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

3.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

4.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

5.

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

Sandburg, Carl

6.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

8.

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

9.

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

James, William

10.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

11.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

12.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

16.

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

Cass, Lewis

17.

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

18.

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

Quarles, Francis

19.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

20.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Lu Xun

22.

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

James, William

23.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

25.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

26.

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

Pauling, Linus

27.

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

28.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

29.

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

Picasso, Pablo

30.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

31.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

32.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

33.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

34.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

36.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

37.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

38.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

39.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

41.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

42.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

43.

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

44.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

46.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

49.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

50.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean