Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

2.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

3.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

5.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

6.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

7.

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

8.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

9.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

10.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

11.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

12.

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

13.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

23.

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

James, William

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

30.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

31.

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

32.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

33.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

34.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

35.

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

Howells, William Dean

36.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

38.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

39.

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

40.

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

Allen, Loius A.

41.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

42.

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

Pauling, Linus

43.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

44.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

45.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

47.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

48.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.