Motivational Quotes

Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

4.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

5.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

6.

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

7.

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

Smith, Sydney

8.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

9.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

10.

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.

11.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

12.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

13.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

17.

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

Arendt, Hannah

18.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

19.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

20.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

21.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

22.

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

Grant, Heber J.

23.

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

Buffett, Warren

24.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

25.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

27.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

28.

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

29.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

30.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

31.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

32.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

33.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

35.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

38.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

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

40.

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

41.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.