Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

2.

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

3.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Smiles, Samuel

5.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

6.

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

7.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

8.

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

Smith, Liz

9.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

10.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

11.

The only way to start is to start.

12.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

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

15.

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

16.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

17.

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

Croce, Benedetto

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

20.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

21.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

24.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

25.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Allen, Loius A.

28.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

29.

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

30.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

31.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

35.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

36.

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

Hasselhoff, David

37.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

38.

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.

39.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

40.

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

41.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

42.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

44.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

45.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

46.

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

47.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

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