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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

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

Ross, Percy

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

10.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

16.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

17.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

18.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

19.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

20.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

21.

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

22.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

24.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

25.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

26.

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

Edwards, Edward

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

29.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

30.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

31.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Bowkett, Chris

33.

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

34.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

36.

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

Graffiti

37.

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

38.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

39.

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

Allen, Loius A.

40.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

41.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Holtz, Lou

43.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

44.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

45.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

49.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

50.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes