Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

2.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

3.

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

4.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

6.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

7.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

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

Mother Teresa

10.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

17.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

18.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

19.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

20.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

21.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

22.

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

Holtz, Lou

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

25.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

28.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

29.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

30.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

31.

Action is character.

32.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

33.

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.

34.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

35.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

36.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

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

38.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

39.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

40.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

43.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

44.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

45.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

49.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

50.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin