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.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

2.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

3.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

4.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

5.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

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

7.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

8.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

9.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

11.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

12.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

15.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

16.

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

17.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

18.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

19.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

20.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

22.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

23.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

24.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

26.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

28.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

29.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Rohn, Jim

31.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

32.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

33.

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

Levi, Peter

34.

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

Graffiti

35.

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

36.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

37.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

40.

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

41.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

44.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

47.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

48.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

49.

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

50.

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

Wordsworth, William