Motivational Quotes

Action

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

- Hasselhoff, David

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

2.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

3.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, Irish

6.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

11.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

12.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

13.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

16.

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

17.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

18.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

19.

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.

20.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

21.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

23.

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

24.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

26.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

27.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

Courteline, Georges

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

31.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

32.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

33.

Do it now. Then it's done.

34.

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

Proverb, French

35.

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

Holtz, Lou

36.

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

37.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

38.

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

Proverb

39.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

40.

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

Proverb, Mexican

41.

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

Grant, Heber J.

42.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

43.

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

44.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

45.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

46.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

47.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

48.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

49.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

50.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx