Motivational Quotes

Action

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Action

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

12.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

13.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

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

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

16.

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

17.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

19.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Holtz, Lou

23.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

24.

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

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

Cass, Lewis

29.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

30.

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

Mother Teresa

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

33.

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

34.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

35.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

36.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

37.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

38.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

39.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

40.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

41.

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.

42.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

43.

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

Proverb, Ibo

44.

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

45.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

46.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

49.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.