Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

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

5.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

6.

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.

7.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

8.

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

9.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Do it now. Then it's done.

14.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Shirley, James

16.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

17.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

18.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

19.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

22.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

25.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

26.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Graffiti

28.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

29.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

31.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

32.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

33.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

36.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

37.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

38.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

39.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

40.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

41.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

43.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

44.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

46.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

47.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

48.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

49.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

50.

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.