Motivational Quotes

Action

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

2.

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

3.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

4.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

6.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

7.

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

Hill, Napoleon

8.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

9.

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

Ennius, Quintus

10.

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

Evans, Richard L.

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

13.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

14.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

15.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

16.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

17.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

18.

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

19.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

20.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

23.

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

James, William

24.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

29.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

30.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

32.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

35.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

36.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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.

39.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

41.

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

Proverb, Ibo

42.

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

43.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

44.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

45.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

46.

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.

47.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

48.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

49.

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

50.

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