Motivational Quotes

Action

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

- Courteline, Georges

Best Quotes about Action

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Balzac, Honore De

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Ross, Percy

10.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

11.

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

Holtz, Lou

12.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

South, Bishop Robert

15.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

19.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

20.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

21.

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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

29.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

30.

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

Mother Teresa

31.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

32.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

34.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

35.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

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

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

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

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

Levin, James

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Roger, John

42.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

45.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

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

Cass, Lewis

49.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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