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.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

2.

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

Proverb, American

3.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

4.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

5.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

6.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

7.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

8.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

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

Courteline, Georges

10.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

12.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

15.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

16.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

17.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

18.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

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

Mother Teresa

23.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Greene, Robert

28.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

35.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

36.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

37.

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

Ross, Percy

38.

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

39.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

40.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

41.

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

Milne, A. A.

42.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

46.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

47.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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