Motivational Quotes

Action

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Action

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

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

10.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

14.

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

15.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

16.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

17.

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

Iacocca, Lee

18.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

19.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

20.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

21.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

22.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

23.

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

Shirley, James

24.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

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

Evans, Richard L.

26.

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

James, William

27.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

28.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

29.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

30.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

32.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

33.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

34.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

36.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

37.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

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

Proverb, Italian

39.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

40.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

41.

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

42.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

44.

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

45.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

47.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

48.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.