Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

4.

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

Plutarch

5.

Do it now. Then it's done.

6.

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

Proverb, American

7.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

8.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

9.

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

Lowenstein, John

10.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

13.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

14.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

15.

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

16.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

24.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

25.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

26.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

30.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Lu Xun

33.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

36.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

37.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

38.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

39.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

41.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

42.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

45.

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

46.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

47.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

50.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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