Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

2.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

3.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

6.

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

Eliot, George

7.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

9.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

10.

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

11.

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

Milea, Jinx

12.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

13.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

14.

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

15.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

16.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Macdonald, George

21.

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

22.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

23.

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

Hasselhoff, David

24.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

25.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

26.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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

Holtz, Lou

28.

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

29.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

34.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

36.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

37.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

38.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

39.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

Never confuse motion with action.