Motivational Quotes

Action

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

- Clarke, James Freeman

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

2.

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

3.

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

Proverb, American

4.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

5.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

6.

Act, don't react!

7.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

8.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

9.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

10.

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

11.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

12.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

13.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

14.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

15.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

16.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

17.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

19.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

21.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

22.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

23.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

24.

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

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

27.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

29.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

30.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

31.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

33.

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

Smith, Sydney

34.

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

35.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

36.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

37.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

38.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

41.

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

42.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

44.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

45.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

46.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

48.

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

49.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement