Motivational Quotes

Action

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Action

1.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

2.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

3.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

4.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

5.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

6.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

7.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

8.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

9.

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.

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

12.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

13.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

14.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

15.

Action is character.

16.

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

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

19.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

20.

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

Howells, William Dean

21.

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

22.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

24.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

27.

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

28.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

29.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

33.

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

Lord, Shirley

34.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

35.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

36.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

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

Courteline, Georges

39.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

40.

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

41.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

42.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

45.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

48.

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

49.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

50.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas