Motivational Quotes

Action

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

2.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

3.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

4.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

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

6.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

7.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

8.

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

Carrel, Alexis

9.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

10.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

11.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

14.

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

Lowenstein, John

15.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Hasselhoff, David

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

20.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

21.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

26.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

27.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

28.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

29.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

30.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

Do it now. Then it's done.

32.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

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

35.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

37.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

38.

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

Cass, Lewis

39.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

40.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

44.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

The only way to start is to start.

46.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

47.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.