Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

1.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

2.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

3.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

4.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

5.

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

6.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

7.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

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

Angelou, Maya

9.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

10.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

13.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

14.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

16.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

17.

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

Riley, Pat

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

22.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

25.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

26.

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

Courteline, Georges

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

29.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

30.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

31.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

35.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

36.

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

37.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

38.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

39.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

40.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

41.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

42.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

43.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

44.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

46.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

48.

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

49.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

50.

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

Pancoast, Mal