Motivational Quotes

Action

Effective action is always unjust.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

10.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

11.

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.

12.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

14.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

15.

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

16.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

17.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

18.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

19.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

20.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

22.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

24.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

28.

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

29.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

30.

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

31.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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.

35.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

Troward, Thomas

40.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

42.

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.

43.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

44.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

45.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

46.

The only way to start is to start.

47.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

48.

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

Wanamaker, John

49.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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