Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Milea, Jinx

2.

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

Bible

3.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

4.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

5.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

6.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

7.

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

8.

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

Hubbard, Kin

9.

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

10.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

11.

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

James, William

12.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

13.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

21.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

22.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

23.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

25.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

26.

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

27.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

28.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

29.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

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

32.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

33.

Act, don't react!

34.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

35.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

36.

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

Grant, Heber J.

37.

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

Milne, A. A.

38.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

39.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

40.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

46.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

47.

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

48.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

49.

Do it now. Then it's done.

50.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony