Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

2.

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

3.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

4.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

5.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

6.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

7.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

8.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

9.

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

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

12.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

13.

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

14.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

15.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Crow, Trammell

17.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

18.

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

Bible

19.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

Mother Teresa

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

24.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

25.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

26.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

27.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

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

Levin, James

29.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

30.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

33.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

34.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

35.

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

Gide, Andre

36.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

37.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

38.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

39.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

40.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

41.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

42.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

43.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

44.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

46.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

47.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

48.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

50.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo