Motivational Quotes

Action

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

2.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

4.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

5.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

6.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

7.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

8.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

10.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

15.

Action is character.

16.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

22.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

23.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

24.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

27.

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

28.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

29.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

30.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

31.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

32.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

40.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

43.

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

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Quarles, Francis

46.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

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

Wanamaker, John

48.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

49.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

50.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted