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.

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

2.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

3.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

4.

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

5.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

6.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

7.

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

Troward, Thomas

8.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

10.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

13.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

14.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

15.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

16.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

17.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

18.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

19.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

22.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

23.

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

24.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

25.

Do it now. Then it's done.

26.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

27.

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

Gerstner, Lou

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

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

Auerbach, Red

30.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

32.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

33.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

34.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

35.

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

Proverb, Ibo

36.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

37.

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

Allen, Loius A.

38.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

39.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

40.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

41.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

42.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

43.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

44.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

45.

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

46.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.