Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

2.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

4.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

5.

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

Bible

6.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

7.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

8.

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

Lowenstein, John

9.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

11.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

13.

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

14.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

17.

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

Croce, Benedetto

18.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Arendt, Hannah

20.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

21.

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

22.

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

Edwards, Edward

23.

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

24.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

25.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

26.

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

27.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

28.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

29.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

30.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

32.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

33.

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

Ovid

34.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

38.

Action is character.

39.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

40.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

41.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

42.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

47.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

48.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

49.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.