Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

2.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

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.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

6.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

7.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

8.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

9.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

10.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

11.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

16.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

17.

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

Viscott, David

18.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

19.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

24.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

25.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

27.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

28.

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

Mann, Horace

29.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

30.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

31.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

35.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

36.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

40.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

43.

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

44.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

47.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

48.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

50.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren