Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

2.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

3.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

4.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

6.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

7.

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

Robbins, Anthony

8.

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

Rohn, Jim

9.

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

Holcomb, John H.

10.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

11.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

12.

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

13.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

18.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

19.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

20.

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

Grant, Heber J.

21.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

22.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

25.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

26.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

Graffiti

28.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

29.

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

30.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

31.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

32.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

33.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

Gerstner, Lou

35.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Iacocca, Lee

44.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

45.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

48.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

49.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

50.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin