Motivational Quotes

Action

You will never win if you never begin.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Warford, Rita

2.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

3.

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

Wilde, Oscar

4.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

6.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

7.

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

Hasselhoff, David

8.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

9.

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

13.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

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

Proverb, American

15.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

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

17.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

18.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

19.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

20.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

21.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

22.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

23.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Grant, Heber J.

25.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

26.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

27.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

28.

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

Proverb, Irish

29.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

30.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

31.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

34.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

36.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

37.

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

38.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

39.

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

Bowkett, Chris

40.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

41.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

43.

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

Holtz, Lou

44.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

45.

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

Milne, A. A.

46.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

47.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

48.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

49.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee