Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Einstein, Albert

5.

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

Hasselhoff, David

6.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

7.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

8.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

9.

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.

10.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

12.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

13.

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

14.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

15.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

17.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

18.

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

Bowkett, Chris

19.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

20.

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

21.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

23.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

24.

Act, don't react!

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

29.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

30.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

31.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

34.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

35.

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

Sandburg, Carl

36.

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

South, Bishop Robert

37.

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

Pauling, Linus

38.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

40.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

43.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

44.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

45.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

46.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

48.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

49.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

50.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo