Motivational Quotes

Action

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

8.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

10.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

11.

Action is character.

12.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

Do it now. Then it's done.

15.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

18.

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

Holtz, Lou

19.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

22.

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

23.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

26.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

27.

Act, don't react!

28.

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

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

31.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

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

33.

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

Shirley, James

34.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

38.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

39.

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.

40.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

41.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

42.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

43.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

44.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

45.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Wordsworth, William

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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