Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your performance do the thinking.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Action

1.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

2.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

3.

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

Proverb, American

4.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

5.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

6.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

7.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

8.

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

Einstein, Albert

9.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

10.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

11.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

12.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

13.

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

14.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

15.

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

Howells, William Dean

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

18.

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

19.

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

Iacocca, Lee

20.

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

Shirley, James

21.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

22.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

23.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

24.

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.

25.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

26.

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

27.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

28.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

29.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

30.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

31.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

32.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

33.

The only way to start is to start.

34.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

39.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

40.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

41.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

42.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

Green, Dennis

45.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

46.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

47.

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

48.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von