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.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

2.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

Macdonald, George

4.

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

5.

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

Howells, William Dean

6.

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

Einstein, Albert

7.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

8.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

9.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

12.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

13.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

21.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

22.

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

Iacocca, Lee

23.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

26.

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

27.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

28.

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

Shirley, James

29.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

30.

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

31.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

32.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

33.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

34.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

35.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

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

37.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

38.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

39.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

41.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

43.

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

44.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

45.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

46.

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

47.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

50.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.