Motivational Quotes

Action

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

- Whittier, John Greenleaf

Best Quotes about Action

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Ibo

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

11.

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

Auerbach, Red

12.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

16.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

22.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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.

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.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

26.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

27.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

29.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

30.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

31.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

32.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

33.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

34.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

35.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

36.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Bible

38.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

40.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

41.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

42.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

45.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

46.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

47.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

48.

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

Greene, Robert

49.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis