Motivational Quotes

Action

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

1.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

2.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

3.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

4.

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

5.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

6.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

7.

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

8.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

9.

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.

10.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

12.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

13.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

15.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

16.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

Galsworthy, John

18.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

20.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

22.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

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

27.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Act, don't react!

30.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

33.

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

Levi, Peter

34.

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

35.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

36.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

37.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

38.

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

39.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

40.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

41.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Bible

46.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

47.

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

Howells, William Dean

48.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

49.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman