Motivational Quotes

Action

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

- Carroll, Lewis

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

2.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

3.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

4.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

6.

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

Proverb, Chinese

7.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

8.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

9.

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

10.

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

11.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

12.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

13.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

15.

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

16.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

17.

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

18.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

19.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

21.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

22.

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

James, William

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

25.

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

26.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

27.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

28.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

Bible

31.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

32.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

35.

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

Allen, Loius A.

36.

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

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.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

40.

The view only changes for the lead dog.