Motivational Quotes

Action

Either move or be moved.

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

2.

Action is character.

3.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

4.

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

Holcomb, John H.

5.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

6.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

7.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

8.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

9.

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

12.

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

13.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

14.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

15.

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

16.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

17.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

18.

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

Lowenstein, John

19.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

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

21.

Act, don't react!

22.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

23.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

24.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

25.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

27.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

33.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

38.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

40.

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

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

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

43.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

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

Wordsworth, William

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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