Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Smith, Liz

2.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

3.

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

Saunders

4.

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

5.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

6.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

7.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Cass, Lewis

9.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

11.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

12.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

13.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

14.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

16.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

20.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

22.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

23.

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

24.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Lord, Shirley

26.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

27.

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

28.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

29.

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

Wordsworth, William

30.

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

31.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

32.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

39.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

40.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

41.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

43.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

44.

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

Balzac, Honore De

45.

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.

46.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

47.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

48.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

Smith, Sydney

50.

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

Lu Xun