Motivational Quotes

Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Bible

2.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

3.

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

Macdonald, George

4.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

5.

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

6.

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

Saunders

7.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

8.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

9.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

10.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

11.

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

12.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

13.

Do it now. Then it's done.

14.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

Lowenstein, John

17.

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

Proverb, English

18.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

20.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

21.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

23.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

24.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

28.

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

29.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

35.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Picasso, Pablo

39.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

40.

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

Smiles, Samuel

41.

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

42.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

45.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

46.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

48.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

49.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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