Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

2.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

3.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

4.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

5.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

6.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

7.

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

James, William

8.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

9.

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

Smiles, Samuel

10.

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

11.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Gerstner, Lou

13.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

14.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

20.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

21.

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

Bible

22.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

23.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

24.

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

Bible

25.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

26.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

27.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

28.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

29.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

32.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

34.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

35.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

37.

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

Saunders

38.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

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

Proverb, French

40.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

42.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

44.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

46.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

47.

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

48.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

50.

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

Pauling, Linus