Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

2.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

3.

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

Gerstner, Lou

4.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Aikman, Leo

6.

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

James, William

7.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

8.

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

9.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

10.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

11.

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

Galsworthy, John

12.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

16.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

19.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

20.

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.

21.

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

Proverb, English

22.

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

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

25.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

26.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

27.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

30.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

32.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

33.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

36.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

37.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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.

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

41.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

42.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

43.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

44.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

45.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

46.

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.

47.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

48.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

49.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

50.

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