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

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

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Havel, Vaclav

The only way to start is to start.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

10.

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.

11.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

13.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

14.

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

15.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

16.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

17.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

18.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

19.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

20.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

24.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

25.

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

26.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Do it now. Then it's done.

28.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

30.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

31.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

34.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

36.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

37.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

38.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

39.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

40.

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

Saying, Zen

41.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Mother Teresa

43.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

45.

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

Sandburg, Carl

46.

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.

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

49.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

50.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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