Action quotes

Action

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

- Disney, Walt

82.

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

83.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

84.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

- Drucker, Peter F.

85.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Durant, William J.

86.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

- Dyer, Wayne

87.

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

- Dyer, Wayne

88.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Edison, Thomas A.

89.

What you are will show in what you do.

- Edison, Thomas A.

90.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

- Edwards, Edward

91.

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

- Einstein, Albert

92.

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

- Einstein, Albert

93.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

- Einstein, Albert

94.

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

- Einstein, Albert

95.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

- Einstein, Albert

96.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

- Eliot, George

97.

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

- Eliot, George

98.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- Eliot, George

99.

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

100.

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo