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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Bible

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

10.

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

11.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

12.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

13.

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

14.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

15.

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

16.

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

Rogers, Will

17.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

18.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

19.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

20.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Lu Xun

25.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

26.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

28.

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

Pauling, Linus

29.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

30.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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

32.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

34.

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

Smiles, Samuel

35.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Do it now. Then it's done.

37.

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

38.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

39.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

40.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

41.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

42.

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

43.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

46.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

47.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

48.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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

Proverb, French

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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.