Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

2.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

3.

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

4.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

5.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

6.

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

Allen, Loius A.

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Angelou, Maya

9.

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

Buffett, Warren

10.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

11.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

12.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

13.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

14.

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

Wordsworth, William

15.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

16.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

17.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

18.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

19.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

20.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

21.

Action is character.

22.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

23.

The only way to start is to start.

24.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

25.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Smiles, Samuel

29.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

30.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

34.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

37.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

38.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

39.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

40.

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

41.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

42.

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

43.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

46.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

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

48.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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

Carrel, Alexis

50.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.