Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Cass, Lewis

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

15.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

16.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

17.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

23.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

24.

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

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Wanamaker, John

27.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

28.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

30.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

31.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

32.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

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

34.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

35.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

36.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

37.

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

38.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

40.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

43.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

44.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

45.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

48.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

49.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

50.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese