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

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Proverb, American

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

11.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

13.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

14.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

15.

Act, don't react!

16.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

17.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

19.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

20.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

23.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

24.

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

Saying, Zen

25.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

26.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

27.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

28.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

29.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

31.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

32.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

33.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

34.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

36.

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.

37.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

38.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

39.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

41.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

42.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

43.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Courteline, Georges

45.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

46.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

47.

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

James, William

48.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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