Motivational Quotes

Action

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

2.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

3.

Do it now. Then it's done.

4.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

6.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

7.

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

Mann, Horace

8.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

11.

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

12.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

13.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

15.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

16.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

17.

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

Picasso, Pablo

18.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

19.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

20.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

21.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

22.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

23.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

24.

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

25.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

26.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

28.

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

Bible

29.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

30.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

31.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Ibo

35.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

36.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

37.

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

38.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

39.

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

Holcomb, John H.

40.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Warford, Rita

44.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

45.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

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

Roger, John

47.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

48.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

49.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

50.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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