Motivational Quotes

Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

3.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

4.

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

Ovid

5.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

6.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

7.

Action is character.

8.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

9.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

10.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

11.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

Wanamaker, John

13.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

14.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

Do it now. Then it's done.

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

21.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

23.

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

24.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

28.

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

29.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

31.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

33.

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

34.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

35.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

36.

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

Buffett, Warren

37.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

38.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

40.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

41.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

42.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

43.

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

44.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

45.

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

46.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

47.

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

48.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

49.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.