Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

13.

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

14.

Do it now. Then it's done.

15.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

16.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

17.

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

18.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

19.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

20.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

22.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

24.

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

Smith, Liz

25.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

27.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

29.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

30.

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

Sher, Barbara

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

35.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saunders

37.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

41.

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

Riley, Pat

42.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

43.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

44.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

48.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

49.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

50.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og