Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

2.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

3.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

4.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

5.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

6.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

7.

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

Bible

8.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

9.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

11.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

13.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

14.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

15.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

17.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

18.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

19.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

20.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

22.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

23.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

24.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

27.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

28.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

29.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

30.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

31.

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

32.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

34.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

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

36.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

37.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

38.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

39.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

40.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

41.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

42.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.