Motivational Quotes

Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

2.

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

3.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

4.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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.

6.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

7.

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

Riley, Pat

8.

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

9.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

10.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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.

14.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

15.

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

16.

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

17.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

18.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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

21.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

23.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

25.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

28.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

29.

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

30.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

31.

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

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

34.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

35.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

36.

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

Green, Dennis

37.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

42.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

43.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

44.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

45.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

46.

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

Saunders

47.

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

48.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North