Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

2.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

3.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

4.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

5.

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

6.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

9.

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

15.

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

16.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Mexican

20.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Plutarch

22.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

23.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

24.

Do it now. Then it's done.

25.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

26.

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

Galsworthy, John

27.

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

28.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

29.

The only way to start is to start.

30.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

31.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

32.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

33.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

34.

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

Cass, Lewis

35.

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

Levi, Peter

36.

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

37.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

38.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

39.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

40.

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

41.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

42.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

43.

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

44.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

46.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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