Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Ovid

2.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

3.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

4.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

5.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

6.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

7.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

8.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

9.

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

Levin, James

10.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

11.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

12.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

13.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

Proverb, Irish

15.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

16.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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

Wordsworth, William

21.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

22.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

23.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

24.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

25.

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

Macdonald, George

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

28.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

29.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

30.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

34.

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

Plutarch

35.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

36.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.