Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest step is out the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

2.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

3.

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

Einstein, Albert

4.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

6.

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

Howells, William Dean

7.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

8.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

9.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

10.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

11.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

18.

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

19.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

21.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

24.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

25.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

26.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

27.

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

28.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

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

James, William

30.

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

31.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

32.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

33.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

34.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

35.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Edwards, Edward

39.

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

40.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

43.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

47.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

48.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

49.

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

Proverb, Irish

50.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert