Motivational Quotes

Action

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Crow, Trammell

2.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

3.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

4.

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

5.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

6.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

7.

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

Aristotle

8.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

9.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Lowenstein, John

13.

Do it now. Then it's done.

14.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

15.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

16.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

17.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

18.

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

19.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

20.

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

21.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

26.

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.

27.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

28.

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

29.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

30.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

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.

32.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

40.

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

Batt, Al

41.

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

42.

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

Balzac, Honore De

43.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

48.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

50.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis