Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Company, Lanes

2.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

3.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

4.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

5.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

6.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

7.

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

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.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

13.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Milne, A. A.

15.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Galsworthy, John

17.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

19.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

20.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

21.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

22.

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

Proverb, Ibo

23.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

24.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

25.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

26.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

27.

Do it now. Then it's done.

28.

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

Mann, Horace

29.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

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

Gide, Andre

31.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

32.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

33.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

36.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

37.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

38.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

39.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

40.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

43.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

44.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

45.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

46.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

49.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

50.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont