Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

3.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

4.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

5.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

6.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

7.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

13.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

20.

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

Mother Teresa

21.

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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

24.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

25.

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

26.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

27.

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

Edwards, Edward

28.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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

Grant, Heber J.

32.

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

33.

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

Milne, A. A.

34.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

35.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

37.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

39.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

40.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

41.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

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

Evans, Richard L.

46.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

47.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

48.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

49.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

50.

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.