Motivational Quotes

Action

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Graffiti

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

15.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

16.

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

17.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

18.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

21.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

22.

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

Milne, A. A.

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Edwards, Edward

25.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

26.

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

Lu Xun

27.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

28.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

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

30.

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

31.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

33.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

35.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

36.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

38.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

39.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

40.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

41.

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

James, William

42.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

43.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

44.

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

45.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.