Motivational Quotes

Action

Action expresses priorities.

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

2.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

3.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

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

Buffett, Warren

5.

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

Proverb, American

6.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

7.

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

Riley, Pat

8.

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

Saunders

9.

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

10.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

11.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

12.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

14.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

16.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

17.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

18.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

19.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

20.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

22.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

James, William

24.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

25.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

26.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

27.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

28.

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

29.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

31.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

Galsworthy, John

33.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

34.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

40.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

41.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

42.

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

Plutarch

43.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

49.

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

Holtz, Lou

50.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas