Motivational Quotes

Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Action

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Gerstner, Lou

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

10.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Ennius, Quintus

15.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

16.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

17.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

18.

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

Buffett, Warren

19.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

20.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

21.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

22.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

23.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

26.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

27.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

29.

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

30.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

31.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

34.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

35.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

36.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

37.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

38.

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

Allen, Loius A.

39.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

40.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

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

Bible

42.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

44.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

Rogers, Will

46.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

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

Ovid

48.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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