Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Ibo

Best Quotes about Action

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

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

The only way to start is to start.

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

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

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

10.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

11.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

13.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

14.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

15.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

19.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

20.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

21.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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.

25.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

27.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

30.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

31.

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

Holtz, Lou

32.

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

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

35.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

36.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

38.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

39.

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

Ross, Percy

40.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

46.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

47.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

48.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

50.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von