Motivational Quotes

Action

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

2.

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

Ennius, Quintus

3.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

4.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

5.

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

Sandburg, Carl

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

10.

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

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

13.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

14.

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

15.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

17.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

18.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

19.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

20.

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.

21.

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

Gide, Andre

22.

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

23.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

24.

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

Galsworthy, John

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

28.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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

31.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

32.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

33.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

35.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

36.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

37.

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

Ziglar, Zig

38.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

39.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Greene, Robert

42.

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

43.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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