Motivational Quotes

Action

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

2.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

3.

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

4.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

5.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

6.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

7.

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

Proverb, American

8.

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

Proverb, Irish

9.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

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

Lu Xun

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

18.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

22.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

24.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

26.

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

Graffiti

27.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

28.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

29.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

30.

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

Proverb, Ibo

31.

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

Bible

32.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

33.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

34.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

35.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

Holtz, Lou

37.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

38.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

39.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

40.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

41.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

43.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

44.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

45.

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

46.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

47.

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

Riley, Pat

48.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red