Motivational Quotes

Action

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bowkett, Chris

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

10.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

11.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

15.

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

Pauling, Linus

16.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Lord, Shirley

18.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

19.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

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

Auerbach, Red

22.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

27.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

28.

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

29.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

30.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

34.

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

Gerstner, Lou

35.

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

Galsworthy, John

36.

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

Green, Dennis

37.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

38.

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

Hasselhoff, David

39.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

40.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

41.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

43.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

44.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

45.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

46.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

47.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

48.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

49.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

50.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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