Motivational Quotes

Action

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

1.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

Aristotle

3.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

4.

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

Levi, Peter

5.

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

Einstein, Albert

6.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

9.

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

Aikman, Leo

10.

The only way to start is to start.

11.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

12.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

15.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

16.

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

17.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

20.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

23.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

27.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

28.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

29.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

30.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

31.

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

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

33.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

Proverb, Ibo

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

38.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

39.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

40.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

41.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

42.

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

43.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

47.

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

48.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

49.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

50.

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