Motivational Quotes

Action

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

3.

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

Hazlitt, William

4.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

5.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

9.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

11.

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.

12.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

13.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

14.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

15.

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

Edwards, Edward

16.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

17.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

18.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

19.

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

20.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

24.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

25.

Act, don't react!

26.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

28.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

31.

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

32.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

33.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

34.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

35.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

36.

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

Graffiti

37.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

40.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Ross, Percy

42.

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

Grant, Heber J.

43.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

45.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

46.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

47.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

48.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

49.

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