Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Do it now. Then it's done.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Schmidt, Helmut

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

10.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

11.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

12.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

13.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

15.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

16.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

17.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

18.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

19.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

23.

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

24.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

25.

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.

26.

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

Evans, Richard L.

27.

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

28.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

29.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

31.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

32.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

33.

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

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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

35.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

36.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

37.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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

40.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

41.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

43.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

44.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

45.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

48.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

49.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.