Motivational Quotes

Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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.

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

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

11.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

12.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

13.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

14.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

16.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Proverb, German

19.

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

20.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

21.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

23.

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

James, William

24.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

25.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

26.

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

Evans, Richard L.

27.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

28.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

29.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

31.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

32.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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

Smith, Liz

34.

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

Howells, William Dean

35.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

36.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

37.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

38.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

43.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

47.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

48.

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

Confucius

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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

50.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon