Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Bowkett, Chris

10.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

13.

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

14.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

17.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

18.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

19.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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.

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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

23.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

24.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

25.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

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

Proverb, Ibo

27.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

28.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

31.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

32.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

35.

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

36.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

37.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

38.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

39.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

43.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

Proverb

45.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

46.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

47.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

48.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

49.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

50.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston