Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

2.

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

3.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

4.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

5.

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

James, William

6.

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

7.

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

James, William

8.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

9.

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

Aikman, Leo

10.

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

11.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

15.

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

16.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

19.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

20.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

22.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

23.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

24.

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

Batt, Al

25.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

26.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Gide, Andre

29.

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

30.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

32.

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.

33.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

34.

The only way to start is to start.

35.

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

36.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

37.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

39.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

40.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

42.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

43.

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

44.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

45.

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

46.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

49.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

50.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.