Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

1.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

Picasso, Pablo

3.

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

4.

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

Proverb

5.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

6.

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

7.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

8.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

9.

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

10.

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

Horace

11.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

14.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

16.

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

17.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

18.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

19.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

20.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

24.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

27.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

28.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

30.

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

31.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

32.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

33.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

34.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

35.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

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

Ovid

37.

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

38.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

39.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

40.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

42.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

43.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

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

Evans, Richard L.

45.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

46.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

47.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

48.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

49.

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.