Motivational Quotes

Action

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

- Inge, Dean William R.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

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

Greene, Robert

3.

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

Smith, Sydney

4.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

5.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

6.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

7.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

8.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

9.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

14.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

16.

The only way to start is to start.

17.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

18.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

19.

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

Picasso, Pablo

20.

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

21.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

22.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

23.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

26.

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

Mann, Horace

27.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

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

33.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

34.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

35.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

36.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

37.

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

Marley, Bob

38.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

39.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

45.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Lord, Shirley

47.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

48.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

49.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus