Quotes about action

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Hugo, Victor on action   

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Hugo, Victor on action
7 fans of this quote   

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

Hutcheson, Francis on action   

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

Huxley, Thomas H. on action
5 fans of this quote   

"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 on action
4 fans of this quote   

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

Iacocca, Lee on action
14 fans of this quote   

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

Iacocca, Lee on action   

"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."

Iacocca, Lee on action
4 fans of this quote   

"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. on action   

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

Jacobs, Joseph on action   

"If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait."

James, William on action
3 fans of this quote   

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

James, William on action   

"Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."

James, William on action   

"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."

James, William on action   

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

James, William on action   

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

Jerome, St. on action   

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law"

Kant, Immanuel on action   

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton on action
5 fans of this quote   

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Keller, Helen on action
9 fans of this quote   

"Now is the time for all good men to come to."

Kelly, Walt on action   

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."

Kettering, Charles F. on action   

"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 on action   

"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on action   

"Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on action   

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."

Landon, Michael on action
5 fans of this quote   

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on action   

"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 on action   

"He who limps is still walking."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on action
3 fans of this quote   

"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."

Letterman, David on action   

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

Letterman, Elmer G. on action
8 fans of this quote   

"You can't start at the top."

Levenson, Samuel on action   

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

Levi, Peter on action
5 fans of this quote   

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

Levin, James on action   

"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 on action
6 fans of this quote   

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on action   

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny."

Linall Jr. A. L. on action   

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

Lincoln, Abraham on action   

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."

Lincoln, Abraham on action   

"One thought driven home is better than three left on base."

Liter, James on action
3 fans of this quote   

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Locke, John on action