Motivational Quotes

Action

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Aikman, Leo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

14.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

16.

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.

17.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

19.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

20.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

21.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

22.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

23.

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

Proverb, French

24.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

27.

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

28.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

29.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

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

Picasso, Pablo

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

Proverb, Irish

37.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

39.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

40.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

43.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

44.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

47.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

48.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

49.

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

50.

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