Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holcomb, John H.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

3.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

6.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

7.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

8.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

9.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

10.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

12.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

13.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

14.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

16.

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

Sandburg, Carl

17.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

18.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

19.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

21.

Do it now. Then it's done.

22.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

23.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

25.

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

26.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

27.

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.

28.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

29.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

30.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

31.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

32.

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.

33.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

34.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

35.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

36.

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

Quarles, Francis

37.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

38.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

40.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

41.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

44.

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