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

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

Adams, Charles Francis

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James, William

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

14.

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

15.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

16.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

17.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

18.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

19.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

20.

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

South, Bishop Robert

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

25.

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

Lowenstein, John

26.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

27.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

28.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

29.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

30.

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

31.

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

Aikman, Leo

32.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

36.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

37.

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

Saying, Zen

38.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

39.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

40.

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

Smiles, Samuel

41.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

42.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

43.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

46.

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

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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

48.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

49.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

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.