Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

1.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

2.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

3.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

4.

Do it now. Then it's done.

5.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

7.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

8.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

9.

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

Bible

10.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

11.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

13.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

14.

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

Riley, Pat

15.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

17.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

18.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

21.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Allen, Loius A.

23.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

27.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

Act, don't react!

30.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Levin, James

32.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

33.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

34.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

37.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

39.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

40.

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

Shakespeare, William