Motivational Quotes

Action

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Rohn, Jim

2.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

3.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

4.

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

Smiles, Samuel

5.

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

6.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

7.

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

8.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

9.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

10.

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

11.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

12.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

15.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

16.

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

Lord, Shirley

17.

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

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

20.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

21.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

22.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

23.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

24.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

25.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

26.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

27.

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

28.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

30.

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

James, William

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

34.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

35.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

37.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

39.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

42.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

43.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

44.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

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

Howells, William Dean

46.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

49.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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