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

1.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

2.

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

Brown, Les

3.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

4.

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

Einstein, Albert

5.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

Green, Dennis

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

13.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

14.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

15.

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

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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.

17.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

19.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

20.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

21.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

22.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

23.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

27.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

28.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

29.

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

Pancoast, Mal

30.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

31.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

32.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

33.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

39.

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

40.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

41.

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

42.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

43.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

44.

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

Roger, John

45.

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