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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
- Allen, Loius A.
Action Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Action

1.
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
Proverb, English

2.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Berger, Sally

3.
The ancestor of every action is thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Evans, Richard L.

5.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.
When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
Proverb, French

7.
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
Letterman, Elmer G.

9.
The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.
Pancoast, Mal

10.
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

11.
Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
Proverb, Chinese

12.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.
What we need is to use what we have.
Walsh, Basil S.

15.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Perot, H. Ross

16.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Wanamaker, John

17.
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

18.
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

19.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

20.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe

22.
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

23.
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Hammarskjold, Dag

24.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aurelius, Marcus

25.
All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.
Zedong, Mao

26.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.

27.
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Brown, Les

28.
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Jacobs, Joseph

29.
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
Townsend, Robert

30.
If you want to get along, go along.
Rayburn, Sam

31.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Stevenson, Robert Louis

32.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

33.
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.
Action makes more fortune than caution.
Clapiers, Luc De

36.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Howells, William Dean

37.
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Roger, John

39.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Robbins, Anthony

40.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Lu Xun

41.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Robbins, Anthony

42.
There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
Crow, Trammell

43.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.
Action is character.

45.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Sandburg, Carl

46.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

47.
It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
Warford, Rita

48.
He is rich that is satisfied.
Fuller, Thomas

49.
This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Nagarjuna, Siddha

50.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Cousins, Norman


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