Motivational Quotes

Action

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

2.

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

Bible

3.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

4.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

5.

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

Troward, Thomas

6.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

7.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

9.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

10.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

12.

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

Gerstner, Lou

13.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

14.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

15.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

16.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

17.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

18.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

20.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Auerbach, Red

22.

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

23.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

24.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

28.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

30.

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

Grant, Heber J.

31.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

34.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

36.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

37.

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

Viscott, David

38.

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

39.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

40.

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.

41.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

42.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

46.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

47.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

48.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

49.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

50.

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