Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Warford, Rita

Best Quotes about Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Liter, James

11.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

12.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

15.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

16.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

17.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

18.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

19.

The only way to start is to start.

20.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

21.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

22.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

23.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

24.

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

Aristotle

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

26.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

31.

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

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

34.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

35.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

39.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

40.

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

James, William

41.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

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

43.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

44.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

45.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

46.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

47.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

48.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.