Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bible

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

12.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

13.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

14.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

15.

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

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

18.

The only way to start is to start.

19.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

20.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

21.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

22.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

25.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

28.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

30.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

31.

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

32.

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

Holtz, Lou

33.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

34.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

35.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

36.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

37.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

38.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

39.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

40.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

41.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

42.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

43.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

44.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

45.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

46.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

47.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

48.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.