Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

2.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

3.

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

Proverb

4.

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

5.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Grant, Heber J.

7.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

8.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

9.

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

Iacocca, Lee

10.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

13.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

14.

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

15.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

Hasselhoff, David

17.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Milea, Jinx

19.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

20.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

22.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

23.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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

26.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

28.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

31.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

32.

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

Aikman, Leo

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.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

35.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

36.

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

37.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

38.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

39.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

41.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

James, William

46.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.