Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Liter, James

2.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

3.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

4.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

5.

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

6.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

7.

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

8.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

9.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

10.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

16.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

17.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

18.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

19.

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

Howells, William Dean

20.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

22.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

23.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

24.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

27.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

29.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

30.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

31.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

32.

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

James, William

33.

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

Pauling, Linus

34.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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

36.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

37.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

38.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

39.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

40.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

42.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

45.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

47.

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

48.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

49.

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

50.

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