Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Einstein, Albert

2.

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

3.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

4.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

5.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

6.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

7.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

8.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

9.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

12.

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.

13.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

14.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

15.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

16.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

17.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

18.

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

19.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

20.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

22.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

25.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Confucius

28.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

32.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

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.

34.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

35.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

39.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

40.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

41.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

42.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

45.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

46.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

47.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

To begin, begin.