Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

1.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

2.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

3.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

4.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

5.

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

Roger, John

6.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

7.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

8.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

10.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

23.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

24.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

25.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

26.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

27.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

28.

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

29.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

30.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

31.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

32.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Ennius, Quintus

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

Act, don't react!

38.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

40.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

42.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

43.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

45.

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

46.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

47.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

49.

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

Riley, Pat