Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Einstein, Albert

2.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

3.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

4.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

5.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

Action is character.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

10.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

11.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

12.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

13.

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.

14.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

15.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

16.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

17.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

18.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

19.

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

20.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

21.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

23.

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

Hazlitt, William

24.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

26.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

27.

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

28.

Act, don't react!

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

31.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

32.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

34.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

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

Milea, Jinx

36.

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

Crow, Trammell

37.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

Sandburg, Carl

39.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

40.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

41.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

42.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

43.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

44.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

45.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

46.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

47.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, English