Motivational Quotes

Action

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

- Gramsci, Antonio

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

2.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

3.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

4.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

5.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

7.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

8.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

9.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

12.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

13.

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

Carrel, Alexis

14.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Lu Xun

19.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

20.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

21.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

22.

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

Sandburg, Carl

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Do it now. Then it's done.

25.

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

Smith, Liz

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

28.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

29.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

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

Wanamaker, John

31.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

34.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

35.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

36.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

37.

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

38.

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

Croce, Benedetto

39.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

40.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

41.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

44.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

45.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

46.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

47.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.