Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Quarles, Francis

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Galsworthy, John

10.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

11.

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

12.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

13.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

15.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

17.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

18.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

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

24.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

28.

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

Aikman, Leo

29.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

30.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

32.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

33.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

34.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

35.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

39.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

40.

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.

41.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

45.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

46.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

47.

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

48.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

49.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

50.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo