Motivational Quotes

Action

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

2.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

3.

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

Wilde, Oscar

4.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

5.

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

Holtz, Lou

6.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

10.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

12.

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

Arendt, Hannah

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

15.

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

Horace

16.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

18.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

19.

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

Gide, Andre

20.

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

21.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

22.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

23.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

Gerstner, Lou

25.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

26.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

28.

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

Heine, Heinrich

29.

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

30.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

31.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

32.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

35.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

36.

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

Lu Xun

37.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

38.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

James, William

41.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

42.

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

Proverb, Irish

43.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

44.

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

45.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

46.

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

Picasso, Pablo

47.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.