Motivational Quotes

Action

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

2.

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

Lowenstein, John

3.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

4.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

5.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

6.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

7.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

8.

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

Croce, Benedetto

9.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

10.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

11.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

13.

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

14.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

15.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

16.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

17.

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

18.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

19.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

20.

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

21.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

22.

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

Graffiti

23.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

24.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

25.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

26.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

27.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

33.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

34.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

35.

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

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

37.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

38.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

39.

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

Wordsworth, William

40.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

41.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

45.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

46.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

47.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

48.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

50.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz