Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

3.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

4.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

7.

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

8.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

9.

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

Proverb, Ibo

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

12.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

13.

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

Lowenstein, John

14.

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

15.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

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

Wanamaker, John

17.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

18.

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

Auerbach, Red

19.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

20.

The only way to start is to start.

21.

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

James, William

22.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

24.

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

25.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

26.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

27.

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

28.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Carrel, Alexis

30.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

31.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

33.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

34.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

35.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

36.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

37.

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

38.

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

39.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

40.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

41.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

43.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

46.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

47.

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

48.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

50.

Be both the gardener and the rose.