Motivational Quotes

Action

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

2.

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

Wordsworth, William

3.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

5.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

6.

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

7.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

8.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

9.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

12.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

17.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

18.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

19.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

21.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

22.

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

23.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

24.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

25.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

26.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

27.

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

28.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

29.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

30.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

31.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

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

Horace

33.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

35.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

36.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

37.

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

38.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

42.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

43.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

45.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North