Motivational Quotes

Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Carrel, Alexis

2.

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

Troward, Thomas

3.

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

Ennius, Quintus

4.

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

5.

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

Edwards, Edward

6.

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.

7.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

8.

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

9.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

12.

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

13.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

14.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

21.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

22.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

24.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

25.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

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

27.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

29.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

30.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

31.

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

Proverb, Irish

32.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

33.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

34.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

35.

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

36.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Galsworthy, John

38.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

39.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

40.

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

Saying, Zen

41.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

42.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

43.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

44.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.