Motivational Quotes

Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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.

10.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Bible

12.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

15.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

16.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

17.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

18.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

19.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

20.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

22.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

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.

25.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

26.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

27.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

28.

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

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

34.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

38.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

42.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

43.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

44.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

45.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

46.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

48.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

49.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon