Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

2.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

3.

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

Mother Teresa

4.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

5.

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.

6.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

7.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

8.

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

Croce, Benedetto

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

13.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

20.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

22.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

23.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

25.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

26.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

27.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

28.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

29.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

30.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

32.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

36.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Quarles, Francis

38.

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

39.

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

40.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

41.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

42.

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

43.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

44.

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

Buffett, Warren

45.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

46.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

47.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

48.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

50.

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

Wilde, Oscar