Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

2.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

3.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

4.

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

Grant, Heber J.

5.

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

Einstein, Albert

6.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

7.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

8.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

9.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

10.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

12.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

13.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

15.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

17.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

18.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Viscott, David

22.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Aikman, Leo

25.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

28.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

29.

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

30.

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

Croce, Benedetto

31.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

32.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

36.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

Lowenstein, John

38.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

39.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

40.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

41.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

45.

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

James, William

46.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

47.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

49.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

50.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North