Motivational Quotes

Action

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

2.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

3.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

4.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

5.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

6.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

7.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

8.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

9.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

10.

The only way to start is to start.

11.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

13.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

19.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

23.

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

Ovid

24.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

26.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

29.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

32.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

33.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

34.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

35.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

40.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

41.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

43.

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

44.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

45.

Do it now. Then it's done.

46.

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.

47.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

50.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm