Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

4.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

5.

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

6.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

8.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

9.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

10.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

13.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Heine, Heinrich

16.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

17.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

18.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

19.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

20.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

21.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

22.

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

23.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

24.

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

James, William

25.

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.

26.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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.

28.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

29.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

30.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

31.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

35.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

37.

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

38.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

39.

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

Proverb, Mexican

40.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

41.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

43.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

44.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

46.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

47.

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

48.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

50.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William