Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

2.

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

3.

The only way to start is to start.

4.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

5.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

6.

Do it now. Then it's done.

7.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

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

10.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

11.

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

12.

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

13.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

14.

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

15.

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

Balzac, Honore De

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

20.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

22.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

23.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

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

25.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

26.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

27.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

31.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Lowenstein, John

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

36.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

37.

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

Proverb, American

38.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

39.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

44.

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

45.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

46.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

48.

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