Motivational Quotes

Action

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

Hazlitt, William

3.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

4.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

5.

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

Einstein, Albert

6.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

7.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

8.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

9.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

12.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

13.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

16.

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

Quarles, Francis

17.

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

18.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

20.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

25.

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

Gerstner, Lou

26.

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

27.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

28.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

29.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

30.

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

Plutarch

31.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

32.

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

33.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

34.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

35.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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

38.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

39.

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

Greene, Robert

40.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

42.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

43.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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.

46.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

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

48.

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

49.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

50.

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

Bowkett, Chris