Motivational Quotes

Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

2.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

3.

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

4.

Act, don't react!

5.

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

Shirley, James

6.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

7.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

8.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

9.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

10.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

11.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

12.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

13.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

14.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

17.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

21.

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

22.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

24.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Ovid

28.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

29.

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

30.

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

Smiles, Samuel

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

33.

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

Saying, Zen

34.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

35.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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 no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

38.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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.

40.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

41.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

42.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

43.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

44.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

48.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

49.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

50.

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

Hill, Napoleon