Motivational Quotes

Action

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

3.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

4.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

6.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

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

8.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

9.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

10.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

13.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

14.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

15.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

16.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

21.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

22.

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

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

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

27.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

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

Ennius, Quintus

31.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

33.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

34.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

35.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

Troward, Thomas

39.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

41.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

42.

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

Auerbach, Red

43.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

47.

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

48.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

49.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

50.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman