Motivational Quotes

Action

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

2.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

3.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

4.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

5.

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

6.

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

Ovid

7.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

8.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

9.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

15.

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

Evans, Richard L.

16.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

19.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

20.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

23.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

24.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

25.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

26.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

28.

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

29.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

30.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

31.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

33.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

34.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

35.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

36.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

37.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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