Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Edwards, Edward

Best Quotes about Action

1.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

2.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

3.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

4.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

5.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

6.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

7.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

8.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

9.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

13.

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

Balzac, Honore De

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

17.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

18.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

21.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

23.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

24.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

25.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

26.

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

South, Bishop Robert

27.

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

Edwards, Edward

28.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

29.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

34.

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

35.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

36.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

37.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

38.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

39.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

40.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

41.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

45.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

46.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

49.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

50.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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