Motivational Quotes

Action

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

1.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

8.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

9.

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

Lowenstein, John

10.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

11.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

17.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

18.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

19.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Gide, Andre

21.

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

Sher, Barbara

22.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

23.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

25.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

26.

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

Auerbach, Red

27.

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

Macdonald, George

28.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

29.

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

Viscott, David

30.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

33.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

34.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Grant, Heber J.

37.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

38.

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.

39.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

42.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

43.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

46.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

47.

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

48.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

49.

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

50.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon