Motivational Quotes
Action
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Best Quotes about Action
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Kelland, Clarence Buddinton
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
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Troward, Thomas
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Einstein, Albert
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
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
Saying, Zen
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Long, Haniel
Be both the gardener and the rose.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Letterman, David
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Hammarskjold, Dag
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
Curcio, Joan L.
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Confucius
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Disraeli, Benjamin
It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
Khan, Pir Vilayat
No rules for success will work if you don't.
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
James, William
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
James, William
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Paterno, Joe
Action makes more fortune than caution.
Clapiers, Luc De
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
Proverb, English
You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.
Ashton, Marvin J.
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.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Drucker, Peter F.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert
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
Before you can do something you must first be something.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Proverb, Chinese
One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.
Gielgud, John
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Wordsworth, William
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
James, William
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Levin, James
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Proverb, African
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Hill, Napoleon
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aurelius, Marcus
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
Bushnell, Nolan
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
Rogers, Will
The ancestor of every action is thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid
From small beginnings come great things.
Proverb, American
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
Proverb, Danish
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
Schuller, Robert H.
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