Motivational Quotes

Action

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

2.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

3.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

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

Smith, Liz

5.

Act, don't react!

6.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

7.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

8.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

9.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

10.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

12.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

13.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

14.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

15.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

16.

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

17.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

18.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

19.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

20.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

21.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

22.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

23.

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

Evans, Richard L.

24.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

25.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

26.

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

Proverb, German

27.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, English

30.

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

Marley, Bob

31.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

33.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

34.

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

35.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

36.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

37.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

42.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

43.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

45.

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

46.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

47.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

48.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Bible

50.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William