Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

3.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

4.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

5.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

6.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

7.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

8.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

9.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

10.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

11.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

12.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

14.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

15.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

17.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

18.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

19.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

22.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Allen, Loius A.

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

28.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

29.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

30.

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

Aikman, Leo

31.

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

Warford, Rita

32.

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

Sher, Barbara

33.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

35.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

37.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

38.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

39.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

41.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

43.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

44.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

45.

Do it now. Then it's done.

46.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

47.

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

Viscott, David

48.

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

Gerstner, Lou

49.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

50.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish