Motivational Quotes

Action

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Action

1.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

3.

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

Carrel, Alexis

4.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

5.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Bible

10.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

Heine, Heinrich

12.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

13.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

14.

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.

15.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

18.

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

Gerstner, Lou

19.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Buffett, Warren

21.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

26.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

27.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

28.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

29.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

30.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

33.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

36.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Sandburg, Carl

38.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

39.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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

Hasselhoff, David

42.

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

43.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

44.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

45.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

46.

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

Pancoast, Mal

47.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene