Motivational Quotes

Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Viscott, David

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Shirley, James

10.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

12.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

13.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

14.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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.

17.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Holtz, Lou

23.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

24.

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

25.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

26.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

27.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

31.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

32.

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

Heine, Heinrich

33.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

34.

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

35.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

36.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

40.

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

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

44.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

46.

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

47.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

48.

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

Aristotle

49.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

50.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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