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.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

3.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

4.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

5.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

6.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

7.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

8.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

9.

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

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

12.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

13.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

14.

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

Levi, Peter

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

17.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

20.

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

Liter, James

21.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

22.

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

23.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

24.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

25.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

26.

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

27.

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

Angelou, Maya

28.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

29.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

30.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

34.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

35.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

36.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

37.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

39.

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

Proverb, American

40.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

41.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

42.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Iacocca, Lee

47.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

48.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

49.

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

50.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.