Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want to get along, go along.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

2.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

3.

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

4.

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

Ovid

5.

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

Green, Dennis

6.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

7.

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

Rohn, Jim

8.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

9.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

10.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

11.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

13.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

14.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

15.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

20.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

21.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

22.

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

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

26.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

31.

Action is character.

32.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

33.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

36.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

38.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

39.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

41.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

42.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

43.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

47.

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

48.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

50.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.