Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

10.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

11.

The only way to start is to start.

12.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

13.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

15.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

Mother Teresa

17.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

18.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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.

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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.

22.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

23.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

24.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

25.

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

Greene, Robert

26.

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

Hasselhoff, David

27.

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

Proverb, Irish

28.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

29.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

32.

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

Crow, Trammell

33.

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

34.

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

Levin, James

35.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

37.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

38.

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

39.

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

40.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

41.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

42.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

43.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

44.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

46.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

47.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

50.

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