Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

2.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

3.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

4.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

5.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

6.

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

Dyer, Wayne

7.

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

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

9.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

10.

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

Crow, Trammell

11.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

Edwards, Edward

16.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Proverb, Irish

18.

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

Gerstner, Lou

19.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

22.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

25.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

26.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

28.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

29.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

30.

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

31.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

34.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

35.

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

36.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

38.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

39.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

40.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

48.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

49.

Action makes more fortune than caution.