Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

3.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

4.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

5.

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

6.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

7.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

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

Heine, Heinrich

9.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

11.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

12.

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

13.

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

14.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

15.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

16.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

20.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

21.

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.

22.

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

Plutarch

23.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

24.

Do it now. Then it's done.

25.

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

Green, Dennis

26.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

29.

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

30.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

31.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

33.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

35.

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

James, William

36.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

37.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

38.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

40.

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

41.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

44.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Proverb, Italian

46.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

47.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

48.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

49.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

50.

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

Shirley, James