Motivational Quotes

Action

Let us be tried by our actions.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

2.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

3.

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

Brown, Les

4.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

5.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

9.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

14.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

15.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

17.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

18.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

19.

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

20.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

24.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

26.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

33.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

36.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

37.

The only way to start is to start.

38.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

41.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

42.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

43.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

44.

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

45.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Aikman, Leo

49.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

50.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.