Motivational Quotes

Action

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

2.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

3.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

4.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

5.

Action is character.

6.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

7.

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

Sandburg, Carl

8.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

9.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

10.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

12.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

13.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

15.

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

Sher, Barbara

16.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

19.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

20.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

23.

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

Shirley, James

24.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

26.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

28.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

36.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

37.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

38.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

39.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

42.

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

43.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

44.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

45.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

46.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

47.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Rohn, Jim