Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Wanamaker, John

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

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

Eliot, George

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

14.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

15.

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

16.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

17.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

18.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

19.

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.

20.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

21.

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

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

22.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Macdonald, George

24.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

25.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

26.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

27.

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

Proverb, Mexican

28.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

29.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

36.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

37.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

38.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

42.

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

Lord, Shirley

43.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sandburg, Carl