Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Company, Lanes

Best Quotes about Action

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Angelou, Maya

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

10.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

12.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

13.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

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

15.

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

Wanamaker, John

16.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

19.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

20.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

21.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

22.

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

23.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

24.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

Arendt, Hannah

26.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

27.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

29.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

32.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

33.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

34.

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

35.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

37.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

38.

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.

39.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

He who limps is still walking.