Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Wordsworth, William

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

14.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

15.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

18.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

19.

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

20.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

24.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

25.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

26.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

28.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

29.

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

30.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

32.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

33.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

34.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

35.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

36.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

37.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

38.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

40.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

41.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

42.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

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

44.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

47.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

48.

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

Holtz, Lou

49.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

50.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha