Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sandburg, Carl

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Mann, Horace

12.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

13.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

14.

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

Gerstner, Lou

15.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

16.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

18.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

19.

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

20.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

21.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

24.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

27.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

35.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

38.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

39.

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