Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

- Gerstner, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Hill, Napoleon

The only way to start is to start.

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.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Iacocca, Lee

10.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

13.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Crow, Trammell

15.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

17.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

18.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

Do it now. Then it's done.

21.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

22.

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

23.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

25.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

27.

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.

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

30.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

31.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

33.

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

34.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

35.

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

36.

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

Arendt, Hannah

37.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

38.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

40.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

42.

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

43.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

45.

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

46.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

47.

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

Milea, Jinx

48.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

49.

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