Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

2.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

5.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

6.

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

Bible

7.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

8.

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

9.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

10.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

11.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

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

16.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

18.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

19.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

21.

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

22.

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

23.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

24.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

25.

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.

26.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

27.

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

Bowkett, Chris

28.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

31.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

32.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

33.

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

34.

Do it now. Then it's done.

35.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

36.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

38.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

41.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

42.

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

Company, Lanes

43.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Ibo

47.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

48.

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

Proverb, Mexican

49.

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