Motivational Quotes

Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

- Letterman, David

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

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

Galsworthy, John

3.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

6.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

7.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

8.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

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

Proverb, Irish

10.

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

Greene, Robert

11.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

12.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

15.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

16.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

18.

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

19.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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.

21.

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.

22.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

23.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

25.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

26.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

27.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

28.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

32.

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

Confucius

33.

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

34.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Holtz, Lou

37.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

38.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

39.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

42.

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

43.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

44.

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

45.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

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

49.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

50.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman