Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

2.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

3.

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

4.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

5.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

6.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

7.

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

Cass, Lewis

8.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

9.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

10.

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

Holtz, Lou

11.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

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

Croce, Benedetto

15.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

16.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

17.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

James, William

19.

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

20.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

21.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

23.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

24.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

25.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

27.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

28.

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

29.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

30.

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

31.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

32.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

34.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

35.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

38.

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

39.

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

Galsworthy, John

40.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

41.

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

Grant, Heber J.

42.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

43.

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.

44.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

46.

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

47.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

48.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

49.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett