Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

2.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

4.

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

Levin, James

5.

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

Ziglar, Zig

6.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

7.

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

Wanamaker, John

8.

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

9.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

10.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

11.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

12.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

13.

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

14.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

15.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

16.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Horace

18.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

19.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

20.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

21.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

22.

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.

23.

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

James, William

24.

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

Proverb

25.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

26.

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

27.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

32.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

33.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

34.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

39.

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

40.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

43.

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.

44.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

47.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

49.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

50.

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

Jacobs, Joseph