Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

2.

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

Rogers, Will

3.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

4.

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

Einstein, Albert

5.

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

Macdonald, George

6.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

7.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

8.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

9.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

12.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

18.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

19.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

20.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

21.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

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.

24.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

25.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

26.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

27.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

31.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

32.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

34.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

35.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

36.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

37.

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

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

40.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

41.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

42.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

44.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

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

Smith, Liz

46.

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

Courteline, Georges

47.

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

48.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

49.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

50.

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

Levi, Peter