Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

2.

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

3.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

4.

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

Mencken, H. L.

5.

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

6.

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

Holtz, Lou

7.

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

8.

Action is character.

9.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

11.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

12.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

13.

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

South, Bishop Robert

14.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

15.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

16.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

18.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

19.

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

Troward, Thomas

20.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

21.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

22.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Act, don't react!

25.

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

26.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

27.

Do it now. Then it's done.

28.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

29.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

30.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

32.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

33.

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

Aikman, Leo

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

36.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

37.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

38.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

39.

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

Plutarch

40.

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

41.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

47.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

48.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De