Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

2.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

3.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

4.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

5.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

6.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

7.

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

Edwards, Edward

8.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

10.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

13.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

14.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

17.

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.

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Picasso, Pablo

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

26.

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

27.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

28.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

30.

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

Saying, Zen

31.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

32.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

33.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

34.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

35.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

36.

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

37.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

James, William

41.

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

42.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

43.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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