Motivational Quotes

Action

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

- Aikman, Leo

Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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 of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

10.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

12.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

14.

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

Iacocca, Lee

15.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

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

Eliot, George

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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

18.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

19.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

21.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

23.

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.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

26.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

27.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

29.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

30.

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

Proverb, German

31.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

32.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Levin, James

34.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Proverb, English

37.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

38.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

39.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

43.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

45.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

47.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.