Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saunders

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

2.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

3.

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

4.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

5.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

6.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

7.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

8.

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

Proverb, Ibo

9.

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

Mother Teresa

10.

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

11.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

12.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

13.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

14.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

15.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

17.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

18.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

19.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

20.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

21.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

22.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

24.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

25.

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.

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

31.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

32.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

33.

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

34.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

36.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

37.

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

Wordsworth, William

38.

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

Lowenstein, John

39.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

40.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

41.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

42.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

43.

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

Grant, Heber J.

44.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

45.

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

Warford, Rita

46.

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

Evans, Richard L.

47.

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

48.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

49.

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

Dyer, Wayne

50.

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

Company, Lanes