Motivational Quotes

Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

2.

One of the marks of a 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

3.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

4.

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

Eliot, George

5.

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

Ovid

6.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

7.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

8.

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

Einstein, Albert

9.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

11.

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

12.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

13.

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

Milea, Jinx

14.

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

Courteline, Georges

15.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

16.

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

17.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

18.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

21.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

26.

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

27.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

28.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

30.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

31.

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

Smith, Liz

32.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

33.

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

Allen, Loius A.

34.

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

Lu Xun

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

37.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

38.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

39.

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

40.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

41.

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

Bible

42.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

43.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

44.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

49.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

50.

You can't start at the top.