Motivational Quotes

Action

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

2.

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.

3.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

6.

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

7.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

8.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

9.

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

10.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

11.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

13.

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

Milne, A. A.

14.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

16.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

17.

The only way to start is to start.

18.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

21.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

22.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

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

24.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

28.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

30.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

31.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

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

35.

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

Horace

36.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

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

Eliot, George

38.

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

Macdonald, George

39.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

40.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

42.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

43.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

44.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Proverb, German

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

Winning starts with beginning.