Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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

3.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

4.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

5.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

6.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

8.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

9.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

10.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

12.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

13.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

14.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

15.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

18.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

19.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

20.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

21.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

22.

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

Lowenstein, John

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.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

25.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

26.

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

27.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

28.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

29.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

31.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

32.

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

Batt, Al

33.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

34.

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

Aikman, Leo

35.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

36.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

37.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

39.

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

Holtz, Lou

40.

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

41.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

42.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

43.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

44.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

45.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

46.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

49.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

50.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles