Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

2.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

3.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

4.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

5.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

6.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

8.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Grant, Heber J.

11.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

13.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

14.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

16.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

17.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

21.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

23.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

24.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

25.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

26.

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

Lu Xun

27.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

28.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

29.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

30.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

31.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

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

Hazlitt, William

33.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

34.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

38.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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

40.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

41.

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

Courteline, Georges

42.

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

Aikman, Leo

43.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

45.

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

46.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

47.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

Milne, A. A.

49.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.