Motivational Quotes

Action

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Proverb, American

2.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

3.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

7.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

8.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

9.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

12.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

13.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

14.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

15.

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

16.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

17.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

18.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

22.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

23.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

24.

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

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

Hasselhoff, David

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

28.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

29.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

Proverb, English

33.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Balzac, Honore De

35.

Action is character.

36.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

37.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

41.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

44.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

45.

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

Einstein, Albert