Motivational Quotes

Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

2.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

4.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

5.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

6.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

7.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

8.

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

9.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Confucius

12.

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

Allen, Loius A.

13.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

15.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

16.

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

17.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

24.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

26.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

27.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

28.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

31.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

32.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

33.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

34.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

35.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

36.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

38.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

40.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

41.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

42.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

44.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

45.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

South, Bishop Robert

47.

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

Grant, Heber J.

48.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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