Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

2.

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.

3.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

4.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

5.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

6.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

7.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

8.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

9.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

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

Howells, William Dean

11.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

15.

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

South, Bishop Robert

16.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

18.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

Do it now. Then it's done.

20.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

21.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

22.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Company, Lanes

24.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

27.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

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

Grant, Heber J.

36.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

37.

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

Mother Teresa

38.

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

Croce, Benedetto

39.

Action is character.

40.

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

Levi, Peter

41.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

43.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

44.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

45.

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

46.

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

47.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

48.

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

49.

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

Ovid

50.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.