Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

5.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

6.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

7.

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

Iacocca, Lee

8.

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

Galsworthy, John

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.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

12.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

18.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

19.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

20.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

22.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

23.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

24.

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

25.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

26.

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

Proverb, Irish

27.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

28.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

29.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

30.

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

Ovid

31.

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

32.

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

33.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

34.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

35.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

36.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

37.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

38.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

39.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

40.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

41.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

42.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

43.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

44.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

46.

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

Plutarch

47.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

49.

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

Smiles, Samuel

50.

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