Motivational Quotes

Action

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

2.

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

3.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

4.

Do it now. Then it's done.

5.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

6.

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

7.

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

8.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

9.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

10.

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

11.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

13.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

15.

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

16.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

17.

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

18.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

20.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

23.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

25.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

26.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

27.

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

James, William

28.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

31.

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

Lu Xun

32.

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

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

36.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

37.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

38.

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

Mother Teresa

39.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

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

Proverb, German

44.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

45.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

46.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

48.

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

Robbins, Anthony

49.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.