Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

1.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

2.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

3.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

4.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

5.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

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

Saunders

7.

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

Einstein, Albert

8.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

9.

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

10.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

11.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

12.

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

Ovid

13.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

14.

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

15.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Horace

19.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

20.

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

Shirley, James

21.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

22.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

24.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

25.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

26.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

27.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

28.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

29.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

30.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

31.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

33.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

34.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

35.

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

Hasselhoff, David

36.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

37.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

38.

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

Riley, Pat

39.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

40.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

41.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

45.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

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