Motivational Quotes

Action

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

- Ashton, Marvin J.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

2.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

3.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

4.

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

5.

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

Shakespeare, William

6.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

7.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

8.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

9.

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

10.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

11.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

12.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

13.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Proverb

16.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

17.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

21.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

22.

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

23.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

25.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

26.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

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

Saunders

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

31.

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

32.

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

33.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

34.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

36.

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

Picasso, Pablo

37.

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

Holcomb, John H.

38.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

39.

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

South, Bishop Robert

40.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

41.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

42.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

44.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

45.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

46.

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

Croce, Benedetto

47.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

48.

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

Eliot, George

49.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

50.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon