Motivational Quotes

Action

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

- Crow, Trammell

Best Quotes about Action

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

13.

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

Horace

14.

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

Proverb, Mexican

15.

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

16.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

17.

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

18.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

19.

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

Troward, Thomas

20.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Proverb, Italian

22.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

23.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

24.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

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

Ovid

26.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

33.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

35.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

36.

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

Mother Teresa

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.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

39.

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

40.

Act, don't react!

41.

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.

42.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

45.

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.

46.

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

Saunders

47.

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

Plutarch

48.

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

49.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish