Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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

3.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

4.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

5.

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

Ennius, Quintus

6.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

7.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

8.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

9.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

12.

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

Company, Lanes

13.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

16.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

20.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

23.

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

24.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

25.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

26.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

27.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

28.

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

Crow, Trammell

29.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

30.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

31.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

32.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

36.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

38.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

39.

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

40.

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

41.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

46.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

47.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

48.

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