Motivational Quotes

Action

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

2.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

3.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

4.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

5.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

6.

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

Auerbach, Red

7.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

8.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

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

13.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

14.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

16.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

17.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

18.

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

Allen, Loius A.

19.

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

Greene, Robert

20.

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

21.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

25.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

27.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

28.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

29.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

31.

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

Proverb, Irish

32.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

35.

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

36.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

38.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

39.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

Gerstner, Lou

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

43.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Bible

45.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

46.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

47.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

50.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo