Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

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

Smiles, Samuel

3.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

4.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

5.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

6.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

7.

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

Gerstner, Lou

8.

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

9.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

11.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

12.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

22.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

23.

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

24.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

25.

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

Proverb, English

26.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

27.

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

Confucius

28.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

29.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

31.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Croce, Benedetto

33.

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

Ovid

34.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

35.

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

36.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

37.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

38.

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

Troward, Thomas

39.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

Lu Xun

41.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

45.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

49.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.