Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Action is character.

2.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

4.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

9.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

10.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

11.

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

12.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Evans, Richard L.

14.

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

Galsworthy, John

15.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

17.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Heine, Heinrich

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

22.

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

23.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

Company, Lanes

25.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

26.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

27.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

32.

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

33.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

34.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

35.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

36.

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

Bowkett, Chris

37.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

38.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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.