Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

2.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

3.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

4.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

5.

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

6.

Do it now. Then it's done.

7.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

15.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Hasselhoff, David

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

28.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

29.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

30.

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

Bible

31.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

32.

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

Proverb, Ibo

33.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

34.

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

Horace

35.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

38.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

39.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

40.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

41.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

42.

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

Smith, Sydney

43.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

45.

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

Iacocca, Lee

46.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

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

Wanamaker, John

50.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert