Action Quotes - Page 13

• 

  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  924 Copy quote

• To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

  Hugh Prather

  Frustration, Mindfulness, Would Be

  Hugh Prather (1970). “Notes to myself: my struggle to become a person”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Witty, Goal

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.286, Hamilton Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Acting, Firsts, Born

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Years, Rely Upon

  The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

  Tennessee Williams

  Light, Rude, Naked

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• My actions are my only true belongings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Buddhist, Truth

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2006). “Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology”, p.227, Parallax Press

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Teaching, Learning, Men

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All men of action are dreamers.

  James Huneker

  Dream, Men, Dreamer

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Over You, Thunder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.52, Harvard University Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Eden, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Taken

  8 Copy quote

• The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

  Richard Koch

  Work, Should, Wells

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.26, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Robert South

  Power, Men, Drawing

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.140

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

  James Shirley

  Inspirational, Sweet, Dust

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

  45 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Night, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  David Letterman

  Motivational, Reality, Focus

  64 Copy quote

• The legs are the wheels of creativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Acting, Legs

  10 Copy quote

• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

  20 Copy quote

• Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Names, People, Lazy

  11 Copy quote

• The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Perseverance, Men, Endurance

  7 Copy quote

• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  14 Copy quote

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  551 Copy quote

• A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  57 Copy quote