Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

- Whitefield, George

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

2.

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

Iacocca, Lee

3.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

4.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

5.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

7.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

8.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

9.

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.

10.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

11.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

12.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

13.

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

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

16.

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

Proverb

17.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

18.

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

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

24.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

25.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

30.

Action is character.

31.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

32.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

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

Evans, Richard L.

35.

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

36.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

37.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

38.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

40.

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

41.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

42.

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

43.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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

49.

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

Plutarch

50.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert