Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cass, Lewis

Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Wordsworth, William

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

10.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

11.

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

12.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

13.

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

Bible

14.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

15.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

16.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

17.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

19.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

20.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

21.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

25.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

26.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

27.

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

Galsworthy, John

28.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

29.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

30.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

35.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

38.

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

Company, Lanes

39.

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

Arendt, Hannah

40.

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

Saunders

41.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

42.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

Do it now. Then it's done.

48.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

Act, don't react!

50.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur