Motivational Quotes

Action

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

10.

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

11.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

12.

Act, don't react!

13.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Macdonald, George

15.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

16.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

17.

Do it now. Then it's done.

18.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

20.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

23.

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

24.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

27.

Action is character.

28.

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

29.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

30.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

31.

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

32.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

33.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

36.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

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

Bible

39.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

40.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

41.

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

Ovid

42.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

44.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

45.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

46.

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

47.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

49.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

50.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American