Motivational Quotes

Action

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

2.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

3.

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

Smith, Liz

4.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

5.

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

Macdonald, George

6.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

7.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

8.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

9.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

11.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

14.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

16.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

17.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

18.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

19.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

20.

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

21.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

23.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Sandburg, Carl

29.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

31.

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

Courteline, Georges

32.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

35.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

40.

Act, don't react!

41.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

42.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

43.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

44.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

49.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

50.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel