Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

3.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

4.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

5.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

6.

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

7.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

8.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

9.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

10.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

11.

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

12.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

13.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

17.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

18.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Ennius, Quintus

21.

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

Liter, James

22.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

24.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

25.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

26.

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

Proverb, American

27.

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

James, William

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

31.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

32.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

33.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

34.

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

Picasso, Pablo

35.

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

36.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

38.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

39.

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

Proverb, Ibo

40.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

41.

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

Carrel, Alexis

42.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

44.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

45.

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

46.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

49.

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