Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

3.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

Act, don't react!

6.

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

7.

Action is character.

8.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

9.

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

Batt, Al

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

13.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

16.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Evans, Richard L.

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

20.

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

21.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

22.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

23.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

24.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

26.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

27.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

28.

Do it now. Then it's done.

29.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Mann, Horace

33.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

35.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

36.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

38.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

40.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

41.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

42.

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

43.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

44.

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

Ross, Percy

45.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

46.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

47.

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

Gide, Andre

48.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

49.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.