Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

2.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

3.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

4.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

5.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

6.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

7.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

8.

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

Milne, A. A.

9.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

10.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

12.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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 world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

15.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

16.

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

Bible

17.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

19.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

20.

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

21.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

23.

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

Bible

24.

The only way to start is to start.

25.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

27.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

28.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

29.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

30.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Action is character.

35.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

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

Holtz, Lou

37.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

38.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

39.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

40.

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

Marley, Bob

41.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

42.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

43.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

44.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

45.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

46.

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

Lord, Shirley

47.

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

Wilde, Oscar

48.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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