Motivational Quotes

Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Shirley, James

2.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

4.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

7.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

8.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

9.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

11.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

12.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

13.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

15.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

16.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

17.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

19.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

20.

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

Mann, Horace

21.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

22.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

23.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

24.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

25.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

26.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

27.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

28.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

29.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

31.

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

Brown, Les

32.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

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.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

37.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

38.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

40.

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

Hubbard, Kin

41.

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

42.

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

Batt, Al

43.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

44.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

45.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

46.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

48.

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

Quarles, Francis

49.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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