Motivational Quotes

Action

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

3.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

4.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Holtz, Lou

6.

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

7.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

8.

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

Cass, Lewis

9.

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

Proverb, Ibo

10.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

16.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

17.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

18.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

19.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

Do it now. Then it's done.

24.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

25.

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

Shirley, James

26.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

28.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

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

30.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

31.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

33.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

34.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

37.

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

Proverb, English

38.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

39.

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

Proverb, Italian

40.

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