Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Proverb, Chinese

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

James, William

10.

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

11.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

12.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

13.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

16.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

18.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

20.

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

21.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

22.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

23.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

28.

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

Lowenstein, John

29.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

30.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

31.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

32.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

33.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

34.

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

Lu Xun

35.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

36.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

37.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

40.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

41.

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

Lord, Shirley

42.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

43.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

44.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

49.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

50.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.