Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

- Smith, Liz

Best Quotes about Action

1.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

2.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

3.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

4.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

5.

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

6.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

8.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

9.

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

Wordsworth, William

10.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

11.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

12.

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

13.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

14.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

15.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

16.

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

17.

Action is character.

18.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

19.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

20.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

21.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

22.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

24.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

26.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

27.

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

28.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

29.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

30.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

33.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Italian

37.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

40.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

41.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

42.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

46.

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

47.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

48.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

49.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

50.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman