Motivational Quotes

Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

1.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

2.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

3.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

5.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

6.

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

Horace

7.

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

8.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.

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

10.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

11.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

12.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

20.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

24.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

25.

The only way to start is to start.

26.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

30.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

31.

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

Greene, Robert

32.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

33.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

35.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

36.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

37.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Eliot, George

39.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

40.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

45.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

Lord, Shirley

47.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

48.

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

49.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

50.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German