Motivational Quotes

Action

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Einstein, Albert

2.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

3.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

4.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

5.

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

6.

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

Picasso, Pablo

7.

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

8.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

9.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

10.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

12.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

13.

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

Bible

14.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

15.

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

16.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

18.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

19.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

20.

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

21.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

23.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

24.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

25.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

26.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

30.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

34.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

37.

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

Proverb, Mexican

38.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

42.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

43.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

44.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.

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

46.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

47.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

48.

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

49.

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

50.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert