Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Mother Teresa

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Buffett, Warren

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

10.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

11.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

12.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

15.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

16.

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

17.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

20.

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

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

23.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

24.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

26.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

27.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

28.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

29.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

30.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

33.

Action is character.

34.

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.

35.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

40.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

41.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

42.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

43.

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

44.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese