Motivational Quotes

Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

5.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

6.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

7.

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

Levi, Peter

8.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

9.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

10.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

11.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

12.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

14.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

15.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

16.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

17.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

18.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

22.

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

23.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

25.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

26.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

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

Holtz, Lou

28.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

29.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

30.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

31.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

33.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

34.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

36.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

37.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Carrel, Alexis

39.

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

Company, Lanes

40.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

42.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

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

Macdonald, George

44.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Horace

47.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

48.

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

James, William

49.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

50.

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

Bronowski, Jacob