Motivational Quotes

Action

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

2.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

3.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

4.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

5.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

6.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

7.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

8.

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

Graffiti

9.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

10.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

13.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

South, Bishop Robert

15.

Do it now. Then it's done.

16.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

17.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

18.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

19.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

20.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

22.

The only way to start is to start.

23.

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

Plutarch

24.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

25.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

26.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

27.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

28.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

29.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

31.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

33.

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

34.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

36.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

37.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

38.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

39.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

40.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

41.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

42.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

43.

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

44.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

45.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

46.

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

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

50.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee