Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

3.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

6.

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

7.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

8.

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.

9.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

Do it now. Then it's done.

12.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

13.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

14.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

16.

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

Saying, Zen

17.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

18.

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

19.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

20.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

23.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

24.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

25.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

28.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

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

30.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

31.

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

Hasselhoff, David

32.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

33.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

34.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Heine, Heinrich

36.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

37.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

38.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

39.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

41.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

46.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Hazlitt, William