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 greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

2.

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

Allen, Loius A.

3.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

4.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

6.

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

Einstein, Albert

7.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

18.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

19.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

20.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

24.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

25.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

26.

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

Heine, Heinrich

27.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

28.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

29.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

30.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

31.

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

32.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

33.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

34.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

35.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

36.

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

James, William

37.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

38.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

39.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

40.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

41.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

42.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

43.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

44.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

45.

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

46.

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

Plutarch

47.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

48.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

49.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.