Motivational Quotes

Action

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

1.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

2.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

3.

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

Eliot, George

4.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

5.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

6.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

7.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

8.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

9.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

10.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

12.

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

Lu Xun

13.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

15.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Mother Teresa

17.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Evans, Richard L.

28.

Action is character.

29.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

32.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

Balzac, Honore De

34.

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.

35.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

36.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

41.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

44.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.