Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saunders

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

2.

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

3.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

4.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

5.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

7.

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

8.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

9.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

12.

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

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

16.

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

Proverb, American

17.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

18.

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

19.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

20.

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

Lowenstein, John

21.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

22.

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

23.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

26.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

27.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

33.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

34.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

39.

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

40.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

41.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Milea, Jinx

43.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

44.

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

Hasselhoff, David

45.

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

Confucius