Motivational Quotes

Action

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

2.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Green, Dennis

7.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

8.

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

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

11.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

12.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

13.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

14.

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.

15.

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

Bible

16.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

Proverb, German

18.

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

19.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

Saying, Zen

23.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

24.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

25.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

26.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

27.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

31.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

34.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

35.

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

36.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

37.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

38.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Arendt, Hannah

40.

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

Levi, Peter

41.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

47.

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