Motivational Quotes

Action

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

- Ashton, Marvin J.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Iacocca, Lee

2.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, German

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

Lowenstein, John

8.

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

Arendt, Hannah

9.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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

Ovid

11.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

12.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

15.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

16.

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

17.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

18.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

19.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

20.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

21.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

22.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

23.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

24.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

25.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

26.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

27.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

31.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

32.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

35.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

36.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

37.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

38.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

42.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

44.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

45.

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

46.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

47.

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

Proverb, Italian

48.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

49.

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

Horace

50.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut