Motivational Quotes

Action

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Bronte, Charlotte

Best Quotes about Action

1.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

2.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

5.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

6.

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

Holtz, Lou

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

11.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

12.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

16.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

17.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

18.

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

Hasselhoff, David

19.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

20.

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

21.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

22.

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

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

25.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

26.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

27.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

29.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

31.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

32.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

33.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

34.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

36.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

37.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

38.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

39.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

40.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

41.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

42.

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

Rogers, Will

43.

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

44.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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

47.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

48.

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

Gaulle, Charles De