Motivational Quotes

Action

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

James, William

2.

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

Proverb, Ibo

3.

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

Heine, Heinrich

4.

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.

5.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

6.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

7.

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

8.

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

Lu Xun

9.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

10.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

14.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

15.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

16.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

17.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

18.

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

19.

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

Levin, James

20.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Action is character.

22.

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

James, William

23.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

24.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

25.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

30.

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

31.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

32.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

33.

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

Milne, A. A.

34.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

35.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

37.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

41.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

42.

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