Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

1.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

3.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

4.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

5.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

7.

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

Einstein, Albert

8.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

9.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

10.

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

James, William

11.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

12.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

16.

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

17.

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

Heine, Heinrich

18.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

19.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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

21.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

23.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

24.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

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

26.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

27.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Troward, Thomas

29.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

30.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

31.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

32.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

33.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

34.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

36.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

37.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

38.

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

39.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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.

41.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

43.

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

Proverb, Italian

44.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

45.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

46.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

47.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.