Motivational Quotes

Action

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Action

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Howells, William Dean

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Smiles, Samuel

15.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

16.

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

Cass, Lewis

17.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

18.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

19.

Action is character.

20.

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

Saying, Zen

21.

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

Sher, Barbara

22.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

23.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

24.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

28.

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

Grant, Heber J.

29.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

31.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

32.

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

33.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

35.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

36.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

38.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Horace

40.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.