Motivational Quotes

Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

3.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

4.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

5.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

6.

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

7.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

8.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

17.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

19.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

20.

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

James, William

21.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

22.

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

Hasselhoff, David

23.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

24.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

26.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

30.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

32.

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

33.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

34.

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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

37.

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

38.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

39.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

42.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

43.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

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

Auerbach, Red