Motivational Quotes

Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

2.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

3.

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

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

6.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

7.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

9.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

10.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Crow, Trammell

13.

Action is character.

14.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

15.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

16.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

20.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

21.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

22.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

23.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

24.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

25.

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

26.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

27.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

29.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

30.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

31.

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

32.

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

Howells, William Dean

33.

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

34.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

35.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

36.

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

37.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

38.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

39.

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

Saying, Zen

40.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

41.

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.

42.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

44.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

45.

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

46.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

47.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

48.

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

Hazlitt, William

49.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

50.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese