Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

2.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

3.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

5.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

7.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

8.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

9.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

11.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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.

14.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

16.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Sher, Barbara

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

23.

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

Cass, Lewis

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

Do it now. Then it's done.

26.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

27.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

28.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

29.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

30.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

31.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

33.

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

Plutarch

34.

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

Edwards, Edward

35.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

37.

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

Grant, Heber J.

38.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

40.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

41.

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

42.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

43.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

44.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

45.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

46.

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

47.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm