Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

2.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

3.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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.

6.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

7.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

8.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

9.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

10.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

11.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

13.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Croce, Benedetto

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Galsworthy, John

18.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

19.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

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

21.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

23.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

24.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

Smith, Liz

29.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

30.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

31.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

33.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

34.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

35.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

36.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

38.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

39.

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

40.

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

Troward, Thomas

41.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

42.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

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

Gerstner, Lou

44.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

48.

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

49.

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

James, William

50.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.