Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

10.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

16.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

17.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

18.

Bushnell, Nolan

19.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

20.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

21.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

22.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

23.

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

24.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

25.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

26.

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

Wanamaker, John

27.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

28.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

29.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

30.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

31.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

35.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.