Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

2.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

3.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

4.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

Lu Xun

6.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

7.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

8.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

9.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

10.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

12.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

13.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

14.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

15.

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

16.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

17.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

18.

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

19.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

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

21.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

24.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

25.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

28.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

31.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

32.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

34.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

36.

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

Holtz, Lou

37.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

38.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

40.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

41.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

42.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

45.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

46.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

47.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

48.

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

Carrel, Alexis

49.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

50.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.