Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

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

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

14.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

15.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

16.

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.

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

19.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

22.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

24.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

25.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

26.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

27.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

28.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

29.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

31.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

32.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

35.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

36.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

37.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

38.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

39.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

40.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

41.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

42.

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

43.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

44.

The only way to start is to start.

45.

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

46.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

47.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

48.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

50.

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

Proverb, Chinese