Motivational Quotes

Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

10.

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

Mother Teresa

11.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

12.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

14.

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

Bible

15.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

16.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

21.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

22.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

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

Gerstner, Lou

24.

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

25.

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

26.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

27.

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

28.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

30.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

32.

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

Marley, Bob

33.

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

34.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

Proverb

37.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

41.

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

Rogers, Will

42.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

43.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

48.

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

49.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas