Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Action

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

The best way to get something done is to begin.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

11.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

12.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

15.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

16.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

17.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

18.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

19.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

20.

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

Arendt, Hannah

21.

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

Smiles, Samuel

22.

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

23.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

25.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

26.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

27.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

28.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

29.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

30.

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

31.

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

Holtz, Lou

32.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

33.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

38.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

39.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

40.

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

41.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

Quarles, Francis

43.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

44.

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