Motivational Quotes

Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

3.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

4.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

5.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

6.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

7.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

8.

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

Confucius

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

11.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

12.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

13.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

15.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

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

Marley, Bob

21.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

24.

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

25.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

26.

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

27.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

29.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

31.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

32.

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.

33.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

34.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.