Motivational Quotes

Action

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

3.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

4.

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

5.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

6.

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

Aristotle

7.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

8.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

9.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

12.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

14.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Ibo

18.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

19.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

20.

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

21.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

22.

Do it now. Then it's done.

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

26.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

29.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

30.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

31.

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

Heine, Heinrich

32.

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

Greene, Robert

33.

Action is character.

34.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

39.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

40.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

42.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

43.

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

44.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

45.

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

Galsworthy, John

46.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

47.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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