Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Greene, Robert

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

10.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

11.

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

12.

Do it now. Then it's done.

13.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

14.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

15.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

17.

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

18.

The only way to start is to start.

19.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

20.

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

James, William

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

26.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

28.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

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

Croce, Benedetto

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

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

37.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

38.

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

Riley, Pat

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

41.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

46.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

47.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

48.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

49.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

50.

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