Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

2.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

3.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

4.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

5.

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.

6.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

7.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

8.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

9.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

10.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

11.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

12.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

13.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

16.

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

Hasselhoff, David

17.

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

Levi, Peter

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

22.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

24.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

26.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

27.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

28.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

31.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

32.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

33.

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

34.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

35.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

36.

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

Holcomb, John H.

37.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

38.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

39.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

40.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

41.

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.

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

45.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

46.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

48.

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

Pauling, Linus

49.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

50.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais