Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

2.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

3.

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

Einstein, Albert

4.

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

5.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

6.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

7.

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.

8.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Auerbach, Red

11.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

13.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

14.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

17.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

21.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

22.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

23.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

24.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

25.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

29.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

30.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

31.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

34.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

35.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

37.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

Ovid

39.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

40.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

43.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

44.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

47.

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

Evans, Richard L.

48.

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

49.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

50.

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