Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

3.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

6.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Ibo

11.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

15.

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

Evans, Richard L.

16.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

17.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

20.

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

Rogers, Will

21.

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

22.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

23.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

25.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

26.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

28.

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

Riley, Pat

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

31.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

32.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

34.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

35.

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

36.

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

37.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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

Proverb, French

39.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Pauling, Linus

42.

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

43.

Do it now. Then it's done.

44.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

45.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

47.

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

48.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Crow, Trammell

50.

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

Robbins, Anthony