Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holcomb, John H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Confucius

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

10.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

12.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

15.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

16.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

18.

Act, don't react!

19.

The only way to start is to start.

20.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

22.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

23.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

27.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

29.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

31.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

32.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

33.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

35.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

38.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

Buffett, Warren

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