Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Galsworthy, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, Irish

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Rohn, Jim

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

13.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

14.

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

15.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

18.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

21.

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

22.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

James, William

27.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

33.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

34.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

35.

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

Smith, Liz

36.

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

37.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Milea, Jinx

39.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

44.

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

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I didn't think; I experimented.