Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

10.

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

11.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

12.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

Action is character.

14.

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

15.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

16.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

17.

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

Galsworthy, John

18.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

19.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

20.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

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

Proverb, Mexican

22.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

26.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

27.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

32.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

33.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

34.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

35.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

39.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

42.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

43.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

44.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

45.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

46.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

47.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

48.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

49.

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

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De