Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

2.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

3.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

4.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

5.

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

Croce, Benedetto

6.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

7.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Pancoast, Mal

12.

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

Bowkett, Chris

13.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

16.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

17.

Do it now. Then it's done.

18.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

24.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

25.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

26.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

27.

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

28.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

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

Wordsworth, William

36.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

37.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

38.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

42.

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

43.

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

44.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Plutarch

46.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

47.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

48.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

49.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

50.

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

Proverb, Mexican