Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lowenstein, John

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

2.

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

Ross, Percy

3.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

4.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

5.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

7.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

8.

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

9.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

10.

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

Levi, Peter

11.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Evans, Richard L.

14.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

15.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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

17.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

19.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

20.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

21.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

22.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

24.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

25.

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

Hasselhoff, David

26.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

27.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

28.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

32.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

33.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

37.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

38.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

39.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Proverb, German

43.

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

44.

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

South, Bishop Robert

45.

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

46.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

47.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von