Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

James, William

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

Howells, William Dean

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

10.

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

11.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

12.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

13.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

14.

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

15.

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

Ovid

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

18.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

20.

The only way to start is to start.

21.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

28.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

29.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

31.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

32.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

33.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

James, William

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

37.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

38.

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

Sher, Barbara

39.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

40.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

41.

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

42.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

44.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

45.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich