Motivational Quotes

Action

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Marley, Bob

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

Saying, Zen

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

16.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

17.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

18.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

19.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

20.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

21.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

22.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

24.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

25.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Confucius

28.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

29.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

30.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

31.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

32.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

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

Batt, Al

44.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

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

Hubbard, Kin

48.

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

49.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf