Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

4.

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

Bowkett, Chris

5.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

7.

Action is character.

8.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

9.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

10.

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

11.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

12.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

16.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Lord, Shirley

19.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

21.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

22.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

23.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

27.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

28.

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

Iacocca, Lee

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

31.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Wanamaker, John

34.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

37.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

Mann, Horace

41.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

42.

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

Marley, Bob

43.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

46.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

47.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

48.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

49.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

50.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.