Motivational Quotes

Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

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

Dyer, Wayne

3.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

4.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

5.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

6.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

7.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

10.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

11.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

12.

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

Holtz, Lou

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

16.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

17.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

18.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

19.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

20.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

21.

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

Galsworthy, John

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Troward, Thomas

25.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

26.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

27.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

28.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

29.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

30.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

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

Courteline, Georges

34.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

36.

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

Shirley, James

37.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

40.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

41.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

42.

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

43.

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

44.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North