Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

2.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

3.

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

4.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

6.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

7.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Wanamaker, John

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

15.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

16.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

17.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

18.

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

19.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

20.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

21.

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

Greene, Robert

22.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

25.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

27.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

28.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

29.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

31.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

32.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

33.

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

Horace

34.

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

Troward, Thomas

35.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

38.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Crow, Trammell

41.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

Smith, Sydney

46.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

47.

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

48.

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

Picasso, Pablo

49.

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

50.

The best way to get something done is to begin.