Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Warford, Rita

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

10.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

11.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

12.

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

Carrel, Alexis

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

19.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

21.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

22.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

23.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

24.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

26.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

27.

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

28.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

29.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

30.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

31.

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.

32.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

34.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

38.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

39.

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

Gerstner, Lou

40.

It is better to rust out than wear out.