Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Confucius

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

10.

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

Cass, Lewis

11.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

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

13.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

14.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

16.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

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

18.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

19.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

20.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

22.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

25.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

27.

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

28.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

29.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

30.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Hasselhoff, David

32.

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

33.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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

Proverb, Italian

35.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

36.

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.

37.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

38.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

39.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

43.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

44.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

45.

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

46.

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

Ovid

47.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

48.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

49.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

50.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony