Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

4.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

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

6.

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

7.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

8.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

9.

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

Iacocca, Lee

10.

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

11.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

16.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hasselhoff, David

22.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

23.

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

Smiles, Samuel

24.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

25.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

26.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

27.

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

28.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

29.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

30.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

31.

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

32.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

33.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

34.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

37.

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

38.

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

Croce, Benedetto

39.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

40.

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

Milea, Jinx

41.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

42.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

43.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

46.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

47.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

48.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

49.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert