Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

2.

Act, don't react!

3.

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

4.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

5.

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

Mother Teresa

6.

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

Einstein, Albert

7.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

9.

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

Eliot, George

10.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

11.

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

Edwards, Edward

12.

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

Milne, A. A.

13.

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

14.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

17.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

18.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

21.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

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

South, Bishop Robert

24.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

25.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

29.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

31.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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.

33.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

34.

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

35.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

41.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

42.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

45.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

46.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

47.

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

48.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

49.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

50.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo