Motivational Quotes

Action

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Wanamaker, John

2.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

3.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

4.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

5.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

6.

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

Einstein, Albert

7.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

8.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

9.

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

10.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

14.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

15.

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

Marley, Bob

16.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

18.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

19.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

20.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

21.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

22.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

23.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

25.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

26.

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

27.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

29.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

30.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

32.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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.

34.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

James, William

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

40.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

41.

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

43.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

44.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

47.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

48.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

49.

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

50.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid