Motivational Quotes

Action

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

- Magnin, Edgar F.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

4.

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

Shirley, James

5.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

6.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

7.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

8.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

9.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

11.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

James, William

13.

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

14.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

15.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

16.

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

Picasso, Pablo

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

19.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

22.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

24.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

27.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

28.

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

Pauling, Linus

29.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

30.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

31.

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

Ennius, Quintus

32.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

33.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

34.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

37.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

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

Heine, Heinrich

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Proverb, Ibo

41.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

45.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

47.

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