Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Mexican

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

11.

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

Horace

12.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

13.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

14.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

15.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Allen, Loius A.

21.

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

Viscott, David

22.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

23.

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

24.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

25.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

30.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

31.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

33.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

34.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

36.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

39.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

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

Balzac, Honore De

41.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

44.

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

Brown, Les

45.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

46.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

48.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

49.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

50.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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