Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Balzac, Honore De

3.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

4.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

5.

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

Mother Teresa

6.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

7.

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

8.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

10.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

11.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

12.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

13.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

14.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

15.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

16.

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

17.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

18.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

20.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

21.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

22.

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

Pancoast, Mal

23.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

24.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

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

26.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

27.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

29.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

32.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

34.

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

Croce, Benedetto

35.

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

Gerstner, Lou

36.

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

37.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

38.

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

39.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

42.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

44.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

45.

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

46.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

47.

One of the marks of a 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

48.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

49.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

50.

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

Lord, Shirley