Motivational Quotes

Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

2.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

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

7.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

8.

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

9.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

11.

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

12.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

15.

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

16.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

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

Iacocca, Lee

18.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

19.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

20.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

21.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

22.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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.

24.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

25.

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

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.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

29.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

30.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

32.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

33.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

35.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

36.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

37.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

42.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

44.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

46.

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

47.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

48.

Do it now. Then it's done.

49.

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

50.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis