Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

2.

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

3.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

4.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

5.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

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

Rogers, Will

7.

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.

Dhammapada

8.

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

9.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

10.

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

Shirley, James

11.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

12.

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

Wanamaker, John

13.

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

Saying, Zen

14.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

15.

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

16.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

James, William

18.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

19.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

20.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

21.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

22.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

24.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

25.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

26.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

27.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Ross, Percy

31.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

32.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

34.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

35.

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

36.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

38.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

40.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

41.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

42.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

43.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

Smiles, Samuel

45.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

46.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

47.

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

48.

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

49.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee