Motivational Quotes

Action

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

2.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

3.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

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

5.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

6.

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

James, William

7.

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

Balzac, Honore De

8.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

9.

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

Croce, Benedetto

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

12.

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.

13.

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

Bible

14.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

15.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

16.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

18.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

19.

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

Carrel, Alexis

20.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

22.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

23.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

24.

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

25.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

28.

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

Ross, Percy

29.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

30.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

32.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

33.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

34.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

37.

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

38.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

39.

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

Milea, Jinx

40.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

41.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

42.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

43.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

44.

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

45.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

46.

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

Ovid

47.

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