Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

2.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

4.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

5.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

6.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Grant, Heber J.

10.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

13.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

14.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

15.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

16.

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

Galsworthy, John

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

23.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

25.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

26.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

29.

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

Cass, Lewis

30.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

37.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

39.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

40.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

41.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

44.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

45.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

48.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

49.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

50.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson