Motivational Quotes

Action

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Shirley, James

2.

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

Saunders

3.

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

4.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

5.

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

Gerstner, Lou

6.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

7.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

8.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

11.

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

12.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

15.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

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

19.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

20.

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.

21.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

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

23.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

24.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

25.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

26.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

29.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

30.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

31.

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

Green, Dennis

32.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

33.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Arendt, Hannah

35.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

36.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

37.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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

39.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

44.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

45.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

46.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa