Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

3.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

5.

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

6.

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

Balzac, Honore De

7.

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

South, Bishop Robert

8.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

9.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

10.

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

11.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

17.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Allen, Loius A.

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

24.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

25.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

28.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

29.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

30.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Arendt, Hannah

32.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

33.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

36.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

38.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

39.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

40.

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

Hasselhoff, David

41.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

42.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

43.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

44.

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

Smith, Liz

45.

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

46.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

47.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

49.

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

Galsworthy, John

50.

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

Proverb, Ibo