Motivational Quotes

Action

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

2.

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

Sher, Barbara

3.

Action is character.

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Shirley, James

6.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

7.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

8.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

10.

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

Smiles, Samuel

11.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

12.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

13.

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

Ovid

14.

Act, don't react!

15.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

18.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

19.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

21.

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

Saunders

22.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

26.

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

Smith, Liz

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Troward, Thomas

31.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

32.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

37.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

38.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

39.

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

Proverb, French

40.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

41.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

Sandburg, Carl

43.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

47.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

Proverb, Mexican

49.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

50.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur