Motivational Quotes

Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

- Roentgen, Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

3.

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

4.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

5.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

6.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

7.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

8.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

9.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

10.

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

11.

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

Riley, Pat

12.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

14.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

15.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

Viscott, David

18.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

19.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

21.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

22.

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

South, Bishop Robert

23.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

24.

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

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

30.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

31.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

32.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

33.

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

Plutarch

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Proverb, Irish

36.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

37.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

38.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

40.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

42.

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

Lowenstein, John

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.

Act, don't react!

45.

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

Ovid

46.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

47.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

48.

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

Eliot, George

49.

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

50.

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