Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

1.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

2.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

3.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

4.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

5.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

6.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

7.

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

Edwards, Edward

8.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

9.

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

10.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

11.

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

Quarles, Francis

12.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

13.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

16.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

17.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

19.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

20.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

23.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

25.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

26.

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

Aikman, Leo

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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.

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

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

31.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

32.

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.

33.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

34.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

35.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

36.

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.

37.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

38.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

39.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

40.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

44.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

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

48.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

49.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

50.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.