Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Bible

4.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

5.

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

6.

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

Mother Teresa

7.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

8.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

9.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

10.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

11.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

14.

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

15.

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

Howells, William Dean

16.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

Pauling, Linus

20.

Action is character.

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

23.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

24.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Proverb, English

30.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

31.

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

Viscott, David

32.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

33.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

34.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Lowenstein, John

39.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

40.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

42.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

43.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

44.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

45.

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

46.

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

Confucius

47.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

48.

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

Holtz, Lou

49.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

50.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo