Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

2.

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

3.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

4.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

6.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

7.

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

James, William

8.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

9.

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

10.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

11.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

14.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

17.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

19.

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

Iacocca, Lee

20.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Rogers, Will

22.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

27.

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

28.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Crow, Trammell

31.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

32.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

33.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

34.

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

Batt, Al

35.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

36.

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

37.

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

Graffiti

38.

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

39.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

40.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

41.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

42.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis