Motivational Quotes

Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

2.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

3.

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

South, Bishop Robert

4.

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.

5.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

6.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

7.

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

Proverb, Irish

8.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

9.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

10.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

11.

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

12.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

13.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

14.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

15.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

16.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

17.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

18.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

19.

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

20.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

25.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

26.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

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

Greene, Robert

28.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Proverb

30.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

31.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

32.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

33.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

34.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

35.

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

Mann, Horace

36.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

39.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

41.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

44.

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