Motivational Quotes

Action

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

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

Proverb, Ibo

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Ovid

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

10.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

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

13.

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

Milea, Jinx

14.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

18.

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

24.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

25.

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

Roger, John

26.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

27.

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

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

33.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

34.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

35.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

37.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

38.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

40.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

41.

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.

42.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

43.

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

Howells, William Dean

44.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

45.

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

46.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

48.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

49.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

50.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.