Motivational Quotes

Action

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

2.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

3.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

4.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

5.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

6.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

9.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

11.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

12.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

13.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

14.

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

15.

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

16.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

17.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

24.

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

25.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

27.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

28.

Act, don't react!

29.

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

30.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

31.

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

32.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

33.

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

Shirley, James

34.

Action is character.

35.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

36.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

40.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

42.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

43.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Auerbach, Red

46.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

47.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

48.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

49.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

50.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell