Motivational Quotes

Action

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

- Khan, Pir Vilayat

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

2.

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

Wordsworth, William

3.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

4.

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

5.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

6.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

7.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

8.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

9.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

10.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

12.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

15.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

16.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

19.

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

Pancoast, Mal

20.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

23.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

24.

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

25.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

26.

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

27.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

28.

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

29.

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

Green, Dennis

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

32.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

33.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

34.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

35.

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

36.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

37.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

38.

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

James, William

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

41.

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

42.

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

Grant, Heber J.

43.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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