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

1.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

2.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

3.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

Bowkett, Chris

5.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

6.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

7.

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

8.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

9.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

11.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

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

South, Bishop Robert

13.

The only way to start is to start.

14.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

15.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

20.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

21.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

26.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Proverb, Ibo

30.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

33.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

34.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

37.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

38.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Green, Dennis

43.

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

44.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

45.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

46.

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

Troward, Thomas

47.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

48.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

49.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur