Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schmidt, Helmut

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

2.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Brown, Les

4.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

5.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

6.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

7.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

8.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

12.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

14.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

15.

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

16.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

19.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

20.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

21.

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

Holtz, Lou

22.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

23.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

24.

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

25.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

27.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

28.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

29.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

30.

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

Lowenstein, John

31.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

32.

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.

33.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

36.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

37.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

40.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

41.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

43.

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

44.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

45.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

48.

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

49.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

50.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often