Motivational Quotes

Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

- Ching Ning Chu

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

3.

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

4.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

5.

The only way to start is to start.

6.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

10.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Saying, Zen

12.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

13.

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

14.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

15.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

16.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

17.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

18.

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

Carrel, Alexis

19.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

20.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

22.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

23.

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

Balzac, Honore De

24.

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

25.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

26.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

29.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

30.

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

31.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

32.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

33.

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.

34.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

37.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

38.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

39.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

41.

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

43.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Shirley, James

46.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

47.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

49.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

50.

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

Einstein, Albert