Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

2.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

3.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

7.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

8.

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

9.

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

Smith, Liz

10.

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

11.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

12.

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

James, William

13.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

14.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

15.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

18.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

19.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Mann, Horace

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

25.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

26.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

27.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

28.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

29.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

30.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

31.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

32.

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

Sher, Barbara

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

36.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

37.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

38.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

39.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

40.

Act, don't react!

41.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

42.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

43.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

44.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

45.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

46.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Riley, Pat

48.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

49.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

50.

Never confuse motion with action.