Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

10.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

11.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

12.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

14.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

15.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

17.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

18.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

22.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

23.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

25.

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.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

27.

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

James, William

28.

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

29.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

34.

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

35.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

36.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

38.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

39.

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

40.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

41.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

44.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

46.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

47.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

48.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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