Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

3.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

4.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

5.

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

Arendt, Hannah

6.

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

Rohn, Jim

7.

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

8.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

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

Aristotle

10.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

11.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

12.

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

13.

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

Graffiti

14.

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

Green, Dennis

15.

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

South, Bishop Robert

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

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

Macdonald, George

19.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

22.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

24.

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

Riley, Pat

25.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

27.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

33.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

34.

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

Hasselhoff, David

35.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

37.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

38.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

39.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

40.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

41.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus