Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

2.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

3.

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

Rohn, Jim

4.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

5.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

7.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

8.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.

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

Ovid

10.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

11.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

12.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

14.

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

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

19.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

20.

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

Evans, Richard L.

21.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

22.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

23.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

25.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

26.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

27.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

29.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

30.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

31.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

32.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

33.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

34.

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

35.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

40.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

41.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

42.

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

Proverb, Mexican

43.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

44.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

46.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

47.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

49.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

50.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe