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.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

2.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

3.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

4.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

6.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

7.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

8.

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

9.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

10.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

13.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

14.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

16.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

17.

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

Carrel, Alexis

18.

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

19.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

20.

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

Evans, Richard L.

21.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

23.

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

Lowenstein, John

24.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Saunders

26.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

27.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

28.

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

29.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

30.

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

31.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

32.

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

Pauling, Linus

33.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

34.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

36.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

37.

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

Allen, Loius A.

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

40.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

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

Milne, A. A.

45.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

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

49.

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

Sandburg, Carl

50.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.