Motivational Quotes

Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

- Croce, Benedetto

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

2.

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

Allen, Loius A.

3.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

4.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

5.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

6.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

7.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

8.

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

Mother Teresa

9.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

12.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

13.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

17.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

18.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

19.

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

20.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

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

24.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

26.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

28.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

30.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

31.

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

Courteline, Georges

32.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

33.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

34.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

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

36.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

37.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Bowkett, Chris

39.

Winning starts with beginning.