Motivational Quotes

Action

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

- Landon, Michael

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

2.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

3.

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

4.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

5.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

6.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

7.

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

8.

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

9.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

14.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

15.

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

Graffiti

16.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

17.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

19.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

20.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

23.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

24.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

28.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

29.

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

30.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

31.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

32.

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

33.

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

Marley, Bob

34.

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.

35.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

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

37.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

38.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

39.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

40.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

41.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

42.

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

43.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

44.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

45.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

46.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

47.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

48.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

49.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

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