Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

- Allen, Loius A.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

Smith, Liz

3.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

4.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

5.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

6.

Action is character.

7.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

8.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

9.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Smiles, Samuel

14.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Troward, Thomas

17.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

18.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

19.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

20.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

Lu Xun

22.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

23.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

25.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

26.

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

Ovid

27.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

31.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

Act, don't react!

33.

Do it now. Then it's done.

34.

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

Gerstner, Lou

35.

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

36.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

37.

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

38.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

41.

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.

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

44.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

47.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

48.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

49.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

50.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.