Motivational Quotes

Action

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

- Lu Xun

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

4.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

5.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

6.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

8.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

9.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

11.

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

12.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

13.

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

Gide, Andre

14.

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

15.

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

Heine, Heinrich

16.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

20.

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

Milne, A. A.

21.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

22.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

The only way to start is to start.

27.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

28.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

29.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

30.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

31.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

33.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

35.

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

Angelou, Maya

36.

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

37.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

38.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

40.

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

Bible

41.

One of the marks of a 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

42.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

44.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

45.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

46.

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

Levi, Peter

47.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.