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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bible

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

Levin, James

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Mother Teresa

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

10.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

12.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

15.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Warford, Rita

18.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

19.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

22.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

23.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

24.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

25.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

26.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

27.

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

Gerstner, Lou

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

30.

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.

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

33.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

35.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

36.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

37.

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

Shirley, James

38.

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

Courteline, Georges

39.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

43.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

44.

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

Quarles, Francis

45.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

46.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

47.

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

48.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

50.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert