Motivational Quotes

Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

- Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

2.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

3.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

Holtz, Lou

5.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

6.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

7.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

8.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

11.

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

12.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

13.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

19.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

21.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

22.

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

Quarles, Francis

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

26.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

27.

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

Bible

28.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

30.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

31.

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

Holtz, Lou

32.

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

33.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

36.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

37.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

39.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Allen, Loius A.

42.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

43.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

45.

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

Gerstner, Lou

46.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

47.

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

48.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene