Motivational Quotes

Action

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

2.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

3.

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

Proverb, French

4.

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

Milne, A. A.

5.

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

Hubbard, Kin

6.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

7.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

8.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

9.

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

Pauling, Linus

10.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Courteline, Georges

12.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

13.

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

Iacocca, Lee

14.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

15.

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

16.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

17.

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

18.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

20.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

22.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

28.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

29.

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

30.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

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

Plutarch

33.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

34.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

35.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

36.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

38.

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

Evans, Richard L.

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

42.

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

43.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

44.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

45.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

46.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

47.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

48.

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