Motivational Quotes

Action

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

2.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

3.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

8.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

9.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

10.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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.

14.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

16.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

17.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

18.

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

Carrel, Alexis

19.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

23.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Bible

25.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

26.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

28.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

29.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

30.

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

31.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

32.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

34.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

35.

Action is character.

36.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

37.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

39.

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

Howells, William Dean

40.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Batt, Al

42.

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

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

Pauling, Linus

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

49.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

50.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais