Motivational Quotes

Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

- Ennius, Quintus

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

2.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

3.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

4.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

5.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

7.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

8.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

9.

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

10.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

11.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

12.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

16.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

17.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

18.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Batt, Al

20.

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

Lord, Shirley

21.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

22.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

23.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

24.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

29.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

30.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

31.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

32.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

36.

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

Horace

37.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

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

39.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

40.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

41.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

42.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

43.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

44.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

45.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

46.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

47.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

48.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

49.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

50.

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