Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

10.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

15.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

16.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

19.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

20.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

22.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

24.

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

Ovid

25.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

26.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

27.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

28.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

29.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

30.

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.

31.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

32.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

33.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

34.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

35.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

36.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

37.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

38.

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

Lu Xun

39.

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

40.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

41.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

42.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

44.

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

45.

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

Lowenstein, John

46.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

47.

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

Bible

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