Motivational Quotes

Action

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Bowkett, Chris

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Aikman, Leo

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

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

11.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

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

Iacocca, Lee

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

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

Greene, Robert

18.

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

Lowenstein, John

19.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

20.

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

Wanamaker, John

21.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

24.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

26.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

31.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

36.

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

Smiles, Samuel

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

39.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

41.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

43.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

44.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

45.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Auerbach, Red

47.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

48.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

49.

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

50.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish