Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

1.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

2.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

3.

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

4.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

5.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

6.

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

7.

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

Levi, Peter

8.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

9.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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.

12.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

13.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

14.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

15.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

19.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

20.

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

21.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

22.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

23.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

24.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

25.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

26.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

27.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

28.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

33.

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

Mother Teresa

34.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

35.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

36.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

37.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Cass, Lewis

42.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

43.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

46.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

No rules for success will work if you don't.