Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

3.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

5.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

6.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

7.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Holtz, Lou

12.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

13.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

15.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

16.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

17.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

18.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

21.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

24.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

25.

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

Aikman, Leo

26.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

27.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

28.

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

Roger, John

29.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

31.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

32.

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

Proverb, Ibo

33.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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.

35.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

36.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

40.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

41.

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

Crow, Trammell

42.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

43.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

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

Saying, Zen

45.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

46.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

47.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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.

50.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.