Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Clarke, James Freeman

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

12.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

13.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

14.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

15.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

16.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

18.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

22.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

23.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

24.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

26.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

28.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

29.

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

30.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

31.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

32.

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

Ovid

33.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

34.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

37.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

38.

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

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

41.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

42.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

43.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

44.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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.

48.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

49.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

50.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.