Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Einstein, Albert

2.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

3.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

4.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

5.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

6.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

7.

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

8.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

9.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

10.

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

11.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Bible

17.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

18.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

20.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

22.

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

Company, Lanes

23.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

24.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

27.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

28.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

31.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

32.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

33.

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

Macdonald, George

34.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

35.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

38.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

39.

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

40.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

41.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

42.

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

Lu Xun

43.

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

44.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.