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.

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

Proverb, English

2.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

3.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

4.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Saunders

6.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

7.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

8.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

9.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

10.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

11.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

12.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

15.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

16.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

17.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Macdonald, George

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

24.

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

25.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

26.

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

Arendt, Hannah

27.

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

Courteline, Georges

28.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

32.

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

33.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

34.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

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

36.

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

Levin, James

37.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

38.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

39.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

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

Pancoast, Mal

43.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

44.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

45.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

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

Liter, James

48.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.