Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

1.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

2.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

3.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

4.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

5.

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

Iacocca, Lee

6.

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

7.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

8.

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

James, William

9.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

10.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

12.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

13.

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.

14.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

15.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

16.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

17.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

18.

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.

19.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

20.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

25.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

26.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

27.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Liter, James

29.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

30.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

31.

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

32.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

33.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

35.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Cass, Lewis

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

41.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

42.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

43.

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

James, William

44.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

45.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

48.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

49.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

50.

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