Motivational Quotes

Action

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Action

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

10.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

11.

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

Proverb, German

12.

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

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

16.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

17.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

Smith, Liz

20.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

24.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

25.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

28.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

29.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

30.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

33.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

34.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

37.

Action is character.

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

43.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

44.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

45.

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

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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.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De