Motivational Quotes

Action

Winning starts with beginning.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

6.

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

Ovid

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Crow, Trammell

9.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

11.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

12.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

13.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

14.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

17.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

18.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

19.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

20.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

21.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

22.

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.

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

31.

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

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

36.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

37.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

38.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

40.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

41.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Gerstner, Lou

45.

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

Milne, A. A.

46.

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

47.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

48.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

49.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

50.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck