Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

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.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

10.

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.

11.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

12.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

14.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

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

16.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

17.

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

Heine, Heinrich

18.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

19.

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

20.

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

Evans, Richard L.

21.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

22.

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

Bowkett, Chris

23.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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

25.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

26.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

27.

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

28.

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

Holtz, Lou

29.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

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.

32.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Proverb

35.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

36.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

37.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

38.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

39.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

41.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

42.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

43.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

44.

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.

45.

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

Marley, Bob

46.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

47.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

48.

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

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

50.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings