Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

2.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

3.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

7.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

8.

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

9.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

12.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

14.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

15.

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

16.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

17.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

20.

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

Sandburg, Carl

21.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

22.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

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

Wordsworth, William

24.

The only way to start is to start.

25.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

28.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

29.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

31.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

32.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

33.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

34.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

35.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

Do it now. Then it's done.

37.

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

Marley, Bob

38.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

39.

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

40.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

42.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

44.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

45.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

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

47.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

48.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

49.

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

Confucius

50.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North