Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sandburg, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Proverb

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

10.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

11.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

14.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

15.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

20.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

21.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

22.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

24.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

25.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

31.

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

Ovid

32.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

33.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

34.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

35.

The only way to start is to start.

36.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

37.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

39.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

40.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

41.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

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

44.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

45.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

46.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

47.

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

48.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

49.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

50.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston