Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

2.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

3.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

4.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

5.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

6.

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

7.

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

Ovid

8.

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

Grant, Heber J.

9.

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

Wanamaker, John

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Plutarch

15.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

16.

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

17.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

20.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

22.

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

23.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

24.

Act, don't react!

25.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

28.

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

29.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

30.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

31.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

32.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

33.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

34.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

35.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

36.

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

Gerstner, Lou

37.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

38.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

39.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

40.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

42.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

44.

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

Proverb, Irish

45.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

50.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis