Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

2.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

3.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

4.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

5.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

6.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

7.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

8.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

10.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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.

13.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

14.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Proverb, American

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

19.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

20.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

23.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

28.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

29.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

30.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

32.

Do it now. Then it's done.

33.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

34.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

35.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

38.

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

Levin, James

39.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

40.

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

41.

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

South, Bishop Robert

42.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

43.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

45.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

46.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

Ziglar, Zig

49.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

50.

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