Motivational Quotes

Action

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Graffiti

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

10.

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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

13.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

17.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

19.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

21.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

22.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

23.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

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

25.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

28.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

29.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

30.

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

Galsworthy, John

31.

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

32.

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

33.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

35.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

36.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

37.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

38.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Aikman, Leo

41.

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

43.

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

44.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

48.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

49.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

50.

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