Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

2.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

3.

Act, don't react!

4.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

5.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

6.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

8.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

9.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

10.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

11.

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.

12.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

13.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

17.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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

Company, Lanes

22.

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

23.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

24.

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

25.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

28.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Green, Dennis

30.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

33.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

34.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

35.

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

36.

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

Graffiti

37.

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

38.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

39.

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

40.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

41.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

43.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

44.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

47.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

48.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

49.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

50.

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