Motivational Quotes

Action

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

2.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

3.

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

4.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

5.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

Balzac, Honore De

7.

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

8.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

9.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

17.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

18.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

19.

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

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

23.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

24.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

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

Ennius, Quintus

26.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

27.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

28.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Viscott, David

31.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

32.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

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

36.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

37.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

38.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

39.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

40.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

41.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

42.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

43.

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.

44.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

45.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

48.

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

Courteline, Georges

49.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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.