Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your performance do the thinking.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

3.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

4.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

8.

Do it now. Then it's done.

9.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

11.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Ovid

13.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

14.

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

James, William

15.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

16.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

17.

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

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

21.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

22.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

24.

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

Holcomb, John H.

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

26.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Hubbard, Kin

30.

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

31.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

32.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

33.

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

Shirley, James

34.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

36.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

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

Troward, Thomas

40.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

43.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

44.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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

Allen, Loius A.

46.

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

Galsworthy, John

47.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

48.

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

Smith, Liz

49.

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.

50.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe