Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

2.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

3.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

4.

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

5.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

6.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

7.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

8.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

9.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

10.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

11.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

12.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Action is character.

17.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

22.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

24.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

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

Iacocca, Lee

27.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

29.

Do it now. Then it's done.

30.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

31.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

32.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

33.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

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

Greene, Robert

36.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

37.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

38.

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

Croce, Benedetto

39.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

40.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

41.

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

42.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

43.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

44.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

45.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

49.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

50.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin