Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Wilde, Oscar

2.

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

Warford, Rita

3.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

4.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

5.

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

Bible

6.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

7.

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

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

18.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

19.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

22.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

23.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

24.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

25.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

26.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

28.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

29.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

31.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

34.

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

Proverb, German

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

38.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

39.

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

40.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

41.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

42.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

43.

Leap, and the net will appear.