Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smith, Liz

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

2.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

3.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

4.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

7.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

8.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

9.

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

10.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

11.

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

Galsworthy, John

12.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

14.

Act, don't react!

15.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

16.

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

Holtz, Lou

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

22.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

23.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

24.

Action is character.

25.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

26.

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

Troward, Thomas

27.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

28.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

29.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

30.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

34.

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

Plutarch

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

38.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

41.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

42.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

43.

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

44.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

46.

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

Croce, Benedetto

47.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

48.

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

49.

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

Smiles, Samuel

50.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet