Motivational Quotes

Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Marley, Bob

2.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

3.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

4.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

5.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

6.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

7.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

8.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

9.

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

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

11.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

12.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

15.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

16.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

17.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

18.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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.

21.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

22.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

23.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

24.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

25.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

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

27.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

28.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

29.

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

30.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

31.

The only way to start is to start.

32.

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

Proverb

33.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

34.

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

Greene, Robert

35.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

37.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

40.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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

42.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

43.

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

44.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

45.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut