Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

3.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

7.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

9.

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

10.

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

11.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

16.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

17.

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

18.

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

Ovid

19.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

20.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

25.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

26.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

Proverb, Ibo

28.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

34.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

36.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

37.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

38.

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

39.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

40.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

41.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

42.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

43.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

44.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

45.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

46.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

49.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

50.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von