Motivational Quotes

Action

Never confuse motion with action.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

3.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

4.

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.

5.

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

James, William

6.

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

Hasselhoff, David

7.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

8.

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

Auerbach, Red

9.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

14.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

15.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

16.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

17.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

18.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

19.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

James, William

22.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

23.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

24.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

25.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

27.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

30.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

32.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

33.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

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

35.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

36.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

38.

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

Liter, James

39.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

40.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

41.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

42.

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

43.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

44.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Carrel, Alexis

46.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.