Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

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

Einstein, Albert

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

10.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

11.

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

12.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

14.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

15.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

20.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

21.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

22.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

24.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

26.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

27.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

30.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

32.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

33.

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

Galsworthy, John

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

36.

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

37.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

41.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.