Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Greene, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

2.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

3.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

7.

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

Proverb, Chinese

8.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

12.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

15.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

16.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

17.

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

Ross, Percy

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

22.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Do it now. Then it's done.

24.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

25.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

27.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

28.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

29.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

30.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

35.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

37.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

38.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

39.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

40.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

42.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

43.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

44.

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

Buffett, Warren

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

46.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

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.

50.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus