Motivational Quotes

Action

He who limps is still walking.

- Lec, Stanislaw J.

Best Quotes about Action

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Smith, Liz

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

15.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

16.

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

17.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

18.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

19.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

20.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

21.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

22.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

23.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

26.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

27.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

28.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

29.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

30.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

31.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

32.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

33.

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

34.

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

Heine, Heinrich

35.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

37.

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.

38.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

39.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

40.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

41.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

42.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

43.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

45.

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

Smiles, Samuel

46.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

47.

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

48.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

49.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

50.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean