Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to make it happen.

- Greene, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

James, William

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lu Xun

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

11.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

12.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

14.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

16.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

17.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

18.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

19.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

21.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

24.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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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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

27.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

28.

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

29.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

30.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

31.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

32.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Croce, Benedetto

35.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

36.

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

37.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

38.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

39.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

40.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

41.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

42.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.