Motivational Quotes

Action

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Bible

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.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

10.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

13.

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

Lowenstein, John

14.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

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

Graffiti

16.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

17.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

18.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

19.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

22.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

23.

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

24.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

27.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

28.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

29.

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

Ovid

30.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

31.

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.

32.

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

Proverb, Ibo

33.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

35.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

36.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

37.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

38.

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

39.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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

Auerbach, Red

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

44.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

46.

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

Allen, Loius A.

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.