Motivational Quotes

Action

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Edison, Thomas A.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

11.

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.

12.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

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

Graffiti

15.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

17.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

19.

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

20.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

21.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

23.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

24.

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

25.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

26.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

27.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

31.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

32.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

33.

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

Saying, Zen

34.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

37.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

38.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

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

Roger, John

40.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

41.

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

42.

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

Company, Lanes

43.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Ross, Percy

45.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

46.

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

Holtz, Lou

47.

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

48.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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