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

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

Bible

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

Levi, Peter

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Shirley, James

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

10.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

14.

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

Troward, Thomas

15.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

17.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

18.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

19.

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

Proverb, Ibo

20.

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

Proverb, Irish

21.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

28.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

30.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

31.

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

32.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

37.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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

40.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

42.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

46.

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

Macdonald, George

47.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

50.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian