Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Ross, Percy

2.

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

James, William

3.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

4.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

5.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

6.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

7.

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

Aikman, Leo

8.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

9.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

10.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

11.

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

Balzac, Honore De

12.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

14.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

15.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

17.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

18.

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

19.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

21.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

22.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

23.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

24.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

25.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

26.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

27.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

28.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

29.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

30.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Wanamaker, John

32.

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

Smiles, Samuel

33.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

34.

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

35.

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

Hasselhoff, David

36.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

37.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

38.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

39.

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

Milne, A. A.

40.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

41.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

43.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

44.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

45.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

46.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

47.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

48.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

49.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

50.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.