Motivational Quotes

Action

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Action

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jacobs, Joseph

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only way to start is to start.

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

Proverb, Italian

10.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

11.

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

Proverb, German

12.

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

13.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

14.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

16.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

17.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

18.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

19.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

20.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

21.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

Lu Xun

23.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

25.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

26.

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

Company, Lanes

27.

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

Hasselhoff, David

28.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

29.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

30.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

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

34.

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

South, Bishop Robert

35.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

39.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

40.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

41.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

42.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

Aikman, Leo

44.

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

45.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

50.

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