Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

2.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

3.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

5.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

8.

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

Wordsworth, William

9.

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

Levin, James

10.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

12.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Holtz, Lou

16.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

17.

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

Ross, Percy

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

21.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

22.

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

Quarles, Francis

23.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

26.

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

Liter, James

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

29.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

30.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Graffiti

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

The only way to start is to start.

37.

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

38.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

39.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Courteline, Georges

41.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

42.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

43.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

44.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

45.

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

46.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

47.

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

48.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

49.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

50.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.