Motivational Action Quotes

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. ~ Caroline Myss

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

You are what you think about all day. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do. ~ Chin-Ning Chu

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers. ~ Andrew McCutchen

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. ~ William Arthur Ward

Doubt can only be removed by action. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Knowledge is potential; action is power. ~ Tony Robbins

Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action. ~ Ilona Andrews

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in. ~ William, Saroyan

If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action. ~ Margaret Sanger

It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself. ~ Matthew Stover

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end. ~ Donald Barthelme

One of the most elusive things about the white shark is their, uh..." His eyes moved to hers and he held them there.
"Their what?" she asked when he didn't finish, a bit rapt by his expression.
He kept his eyes locked on her.
"Their mating."
"Mating," she repeated, feeling a flutter in her stomach at the way he was looking at her...then suddenly not looking at her.
"We don't know if individual animals spawn in a certain spot every time --- kind of like a human might go to a particular pub if she wants some action. Juan an example, mind you?
She folded her arm, feeling her cheeks heat up. "Pub Uh-huh."
Jeff leaned against the railing, his expression looking smug at her embarrassment. "For all we know, sharks are just, ya know, doing it everywhere."
"Like the Kardasians?" ....
"But who know. Maybe, if we play just the right mood music, you and I will get lucky, Sharona Blaire."
Was he talking about shark reproduction... or human?
And... was he flirting? Earlier, he'd gone cold and hostile when she'd tried to apologize. The man was a ball of contradiction. A very sexy, very nice-smelling contradiction.
"Well." She swallowed, staring in his eyes. "I'm all for getting lucky. ~ Ophelia London

Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand ~ Robert Macfarlane

The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating-or God experienced. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. ~ Paulo Coelho

I do know that the right words, spoken from the heart with conviction, with a vision of a better place and a faith in the unseen, are a call to action. ~ Deval Patrick

It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not. ~ Q'orianka Kilcher

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment. ~ Les Brown

The First wealth is health. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever count his blessings, shall be content. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is magic. And you, my dear, are so in love; why, it shows in your every action, in your every breath. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood. ~ Lance Morcan

No wrong in aiming or applauding the win but always agnize one's efforts. ~ Mohith Agadi

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide. ~ Ambrose Bierce

If you know your ill-intentions, I resist your unhealthy-actions. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball. ~ Bobby Jones

Where is the love in what you're doing? ~ Karen Witemeyer

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck. ~ Gautama Buddha

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

I always feel at home doing a little bit of action. ~ Isaiah Mustafa

Don't allow the demands of work load; make you lose touch with life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about. ~ Omar Ahmad

This is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice. ~ Unita Blackwell

When your words and actions are unified you radiate a sense of integrity. ~ Daphne Michaels

of making the Grand Fleet turn away and open the range. Admiral Scheer claims that putting the van of his fleet again into action "diverted the enemy fire and rendered it possible for the torpedo-boat flotillas to take so effective a share in the proceedings," (S) but of course it is a question whether the same result might not have been obtained' by the use of the torpedo flotillas alone. In any case, it must be acknowledged that Admiral Scheer's extraordinary manoeuvres had accomplished a surprise effect upon his enemy as, besides forcing the Grand Fleet to turn away, the moral effect of this torpedo attack had a great influence upon the British conduct of the rest of the action. It is also evident that the British had not comprehended ~ Thomas Goddard Frothingham

I didn't try to be everything but finally found something I am good at. ~ Auliq Ice

If the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to - to offensive insinuations - ' She ~ Edith Wharton

A healthy faith is one that has aligned in word, thought, and action. ~ Michael Gungor

Who you will be tomorrow is shaped by what you do today. ~ Luffina Lourduraj

The start is what stops most people. ~ Don Shula

Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen. ~ Sylvia Boorstein