Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

10.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

13.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

15.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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.

17.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

18.

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

Ovid

19.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

20.

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

Courteline, Georges

21.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

24.

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.

25.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

27.

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

28.

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

Gerstner, Lou

29.

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

Galsworthy, John

30.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Crow, Trammell

33.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

34.

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

James, William

35.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

36.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

38.

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

Liter, James

39.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Arendt, Hannah

42.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

44.

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

Proverb, French

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

47.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

48.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

49.

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

Aikman, Leo

50.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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