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

1.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

2.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

3.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

4.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

5.

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

Einstein, Albert

6.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

8.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

9.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

10.

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

James, William

11.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

13.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

14.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

17.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Holtz, Lou

19.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

23.

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

24.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

25.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

29.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

34.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

36.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Bible

38.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

41.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

42.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

47.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

48.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

49.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

50.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.