Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

2.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

3.

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

4.

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

Bible

5.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

7.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

8.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

9.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

10.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

12.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

14.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

15.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

16.

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

17.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

18.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

19.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

23.

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.

24.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

25.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

28.

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

29.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

33.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

34.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

35.

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

Holtz, Lou

36.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

37.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

40.

The only way to start is to start.

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

43.

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

Courteline, Georges

44.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Shirley, James

46.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

48.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

50.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.