Motivational Quotes

Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

4.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

5.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

8.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

10.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

17.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

18.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

19.

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

20.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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

Mann, Horace

22.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

23.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

25.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

26.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

27.

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

28.

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

Pancoast, Mal

29.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

30.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

31.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

32.

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

33.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

34.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

35.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

36.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

37.

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

Courteline, Georges

38.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

39.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

40.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

41.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Liter, James

45.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

46.

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

Proverb, Irish

47.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

48.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

49.

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.

50.

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

Smith, Sydney