Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

2.

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

3.

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

Saunders

4.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

5.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

6.

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

Pancoast, Mal

7.

Do it now. Then it's done.

8.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

9.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

12.

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

13.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

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

15.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

16.

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

17.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

18.

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

James, William

19.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

21.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

22.

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

Levin, James

23.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

26.

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

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

31.

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

32.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

33.

The only way to start is to start.

34.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

35.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

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

Eliot, George

37.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

38.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

39.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

40.

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

41.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

42.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

43.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

44.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

47.

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

48.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

50.

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

Warford, Rita