Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Proverb, French

2.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

3.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

5.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

6.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

7.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

8.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

9.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

10.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

11.

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

Aikman, Leo

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

16.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

17.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

18.

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

Arendt, Hannah

19.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Wanamaker, John

21.

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

Graffiti

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

24.

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

25.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

26.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

27.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

29.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

32.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

35.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

36.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

37.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

38.

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

39.

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

Pancoast, Mal

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.