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.

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

Horace

2.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

7.

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

Balzac, Honore De

8.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

9.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

10.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Pancoast, Mal

15.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

16.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

17.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

18.

Act, don't react!

19.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

21.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

22.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

27.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

33.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

37.

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

38.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

40.

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

Holtz, Lou

41.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

42.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

43.

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

Howells, William Dean

44.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

45.

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

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

49.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato