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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Balzac, Honore De

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

10.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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.

15.

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

Auerbach, Red

16.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

17.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

18.

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

19.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

21.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

Ennius, Quintus

24.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

25.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

26.

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

27.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Croce, Benedetto

29.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

30.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

31.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

32.

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

33.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

35.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

36.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

37.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

39.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

44.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

45.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

46.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

47.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

48.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

49.

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

Smith, Liz

50.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.