Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

2.

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

Proverb, Irish

3.

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

4.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

5.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

6.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

7.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

8.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

9.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

13.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

21.

Action is character.

22.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

23.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

24.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

25.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

26.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

27.

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.

28.

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

Mann, Horace

29.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

30.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

31.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

32.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

37.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

42.

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

James, William

43.

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

Holtz, Lou

44.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

45.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

46.

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

Auerbach, Red

47.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

48.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

50.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson