Motivational Quotes

Action

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hasselhoff, David

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

10.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

11.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

12.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

13.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

14.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

15.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

16.

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

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

19.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

20.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

21.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

23.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

25.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

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

Greene, Robert

27.

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

28.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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.

31.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

32.

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

33.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

34.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

35.

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

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

39.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

41.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, American

44.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

47.

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

48.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

49.

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

50.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.