Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

4.

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

Gide, Andre

5.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

6.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

7.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

8.

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

Gerstner, Lou

9.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Action is character.

11.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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.

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

15.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

16.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

17.

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

18.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

19.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

20.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

23.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

24.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

27.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

28.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

29.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

30.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

31.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

32.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

34.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

35.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Lord, Shirley

37.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

38.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

39.

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

40.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Holtz, Lou

43.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

44.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

45.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

46.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

47.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

48.

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

49.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

50.

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.