Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

4.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

5.

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

Courteline, Georges

6.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

7.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

8.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

9.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

13.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

15.

Action is character.

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

19.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Arendt, Hannah

22.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

23.

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

24.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

25.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

26.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

28.

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

Bible

29.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

31.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

32.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

33.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

36.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

37.

The only way to start is to start.

38.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

39.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

42.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

44.

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

45.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

46.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

47.

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

48.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

49.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

50.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican