Motivational Quotes

Action

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

Levin, James

3.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

4.

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

Holtz, Lou

5.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

11.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

13.

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

14.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

15.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

16.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

17.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

Horace

20.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

21.

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.

22.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

23.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

30.

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

Proverb, Ibo

31.

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

32.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

33.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

35.

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

36.

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

Ennius, Quintus

37.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

40.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

43.

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

44.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

45.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

46.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

47.

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

Bible

48.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

49.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.