Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Picasso, Pablo

2.

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.

3.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

4.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

5.

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

6.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

7.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

8.

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

9.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

12.

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

13.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

14.

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

15.

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

Shirley, James

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

17.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

18.

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

19.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

20.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

Roger, John

22.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

23.

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

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

26.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

29.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

30.

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

31.

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

32.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

33.

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

Saying, Zen

34.

Act, don't react!

35.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

39.

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

40.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

41.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

43.

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

Pauling, Linus

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

46.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

47.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

48.

The only way to start is to start.

49.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

50.

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

Proverb