Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Proverb, Ibo

2.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

3.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

4.

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

Roger, John

5.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

6.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

7.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

11.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

12.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Galsworthy, John

16.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

17.

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

Ovid

18.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

19.

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

20.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

21.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

22.

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

Lord, Shirley

23.

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

24.

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

Smith, Sydney

25.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

26.

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

Grant, Heber J.

27.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

28.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

30.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

31.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

32.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

33.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

34.

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

Saunders

35.

Act, don't react!

36.

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

37.

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

Howells, William Dean

38.

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

James, William

39.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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.

41.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

42.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

43.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

44.

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

Smiles, Samuel

45.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Pauling, Linus

47.

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.

48.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

49.

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

Heine, Heinrich

50.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham