Motivational Quotes

Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Liter, James

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

Croce, Benedetto

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

14.

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

15.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

16.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

18.

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

Gide, Andre

19.

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

20.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

21.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

23.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

24.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

25.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

26.

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

Lu Xun

27.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

28.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

29.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

35.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

36.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

37.

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

Proverb, German

38.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

39.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

40.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

42.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

45.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

48.

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

49.

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

Aurelius, Marcus