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.

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

Bible

2.

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

Eliot, George

3.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

4.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Milea, Jinx

9.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

10.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

12.

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

Evans, Richard L.

13.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

14.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

21.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Balzac, Honore De

23.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

24.

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

25.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

26.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

29.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

30.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

31.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

32.

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

Proverb, Ibo

33.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

34.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

35.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

36.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

37.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

38.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

41.

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

Quarles, Francis

42.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

43.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

44.

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

Milne, A. A.

45.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

46.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

47.

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

48.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

49.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De