Motivational Quotes

Action

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bowkett, Chris

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

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

The only way to start is to start.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

14.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

15.

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

16.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

17.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

21.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

22.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Horace

25.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

26.

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

Ross, Percy

27.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

28.

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

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

31.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

32.

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

Lord, Shirley

33.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

34.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

35.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

36.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Proverb, Irish

43.

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

Sher, Barbara

44.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.