Motivational Quotes

Action

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

10.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

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

Batt, Al

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

19.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

20.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

21.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

22.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

25.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

26.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

27.

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

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

30.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

31.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

32.

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.

33.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

34.

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

Buffett, Warren

35.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

36.

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

37.

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

Levin, James

38.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

39.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

40.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

41.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

43.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

44.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

45.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

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