Motivational Quotes

Action

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

- Collingwood, Robin G.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

2.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

3.

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

4.

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

5.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

6.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

7.

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

8.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

9.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

10.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

13.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

14.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

15.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

17.

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

Confucius

18.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

20.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

23.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

26.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

27.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

29.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

30.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

32.

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

33.

Act, don't react!

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

36.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

37.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

38.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

40.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

41.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

42.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

43.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

Action is character.