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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

10.

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

11.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Iacocca, Lee

14.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

17.

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

18.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

19.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

20.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

21.

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

James, William

22.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

23.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

24.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

25.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

26.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Arendt, Hannah

29.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

30.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

31.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

32.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

33.

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

34.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

36.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

37.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

38.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

39.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

40.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

41.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

The only way to start is to start.

45.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

48.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.