Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Nagarjuna, Siddha

Best Quotes about 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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Do it now. Then it's done.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

10.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

11.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

12.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

15.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

16.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

17.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

18.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Gide, Andre

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Batt, Al

23.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

24.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

25.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

26.

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

27.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

29.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

31.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

34.

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

Lowenstein, John

35.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

36.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

37.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

40.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.