Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

2.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

3.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

4.

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

5.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

6.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

7.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

8.

Action is character.

9.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

10.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

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

Lowenstein, John

13.

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.

14.

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

Holcomb, John H.

15.

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

16.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

17.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

18.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

19.

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

Graffiti

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

23.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Viscott, David

27.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

28.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

29.

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

30.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

31.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

32.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

33.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

34.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

35.

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

36.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

37.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

40.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

42.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

43.

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