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.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

2.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

3.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

5.

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

Bible

6.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

7.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

8.

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

9.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

11.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

12.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

15.

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

16.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

17.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

18.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

20.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

Shirley, James

22.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

23.

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

Picasso, Pablo

24.

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

25.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

26.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

Robbins, Anthony

28.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

31.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

33.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

34.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

36.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

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

Confucius

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

41.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

43.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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.

46.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

47.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

48.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

49.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

50.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.