Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting things done is to act!

- David, Benjamin O.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

2.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

3.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

5.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

6.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

9.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

10.

One of the marks of a 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

11.

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.

12.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

13.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

14.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

15.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

16.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

17.

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.

18.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

19.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

20.

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

Mother Teresa

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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.

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

25.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

27.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

28.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

29.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

31.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

32.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

35.

The only way to start is to start.

36.

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

Mann, Horace

37.

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

Ovid

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

40.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

42.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.

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

44.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

47.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

48.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

49.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe