Motivational Quotes

Action

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Marley, Bob

3.

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

Proverb, Irish

4.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

5.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

6.

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

Graffiti

7.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

8.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

9.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

10.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

11.

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

Levin, James

12.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

14.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

15.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

17.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

19.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

20.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

21.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

25.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

27.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Ovid

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 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

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

33.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

36.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

37.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

41.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

42.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

44.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

45.

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

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

48.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

49.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.