Motivational Quotes

Action

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

2.

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

3.

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

Proverb, English

4.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

5.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

6.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

7.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

8.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

Proverb, Irish

10.

Act, don't react!

11.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

12.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

13.

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

14.

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

15.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

16.

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

Smith, Liz

17.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Mexican

20.

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

21.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

22.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

23.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

25.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

29.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

30.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

32.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

33.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

37.

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

Pancoast, Mal

38.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

39.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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