Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

10.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

11.

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

12.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

14.

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

Mother Teresa

15.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

20.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

22.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

23.

Action is character.

24.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

25.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

32.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

34.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.