Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Action

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

10.

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

Ovid

11.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

12.

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

Lowenstein, John

13.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

14.

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

Roger, John

15.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

16.

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

Marley, Bob

17.

Do it now. Then it's done.

18.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

19.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

20.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

21.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

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

Greene, Robert

23.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

The only way to start is to start.

25.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

26.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

27.

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

28.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

29.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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.

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

34.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

35.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

36.

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

Quarles, Francis

37.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

38.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

42.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

43.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

44.

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

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.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

James, William

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.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

50.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet