Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Batt, Al

Best Quotes about Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Liter, James

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Gide, Andre

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

Wanamaker, John

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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.

Calvin, John

10.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

11.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

12.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

13.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

14.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

James, William

16.

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

17.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

18.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

19.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

21.

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

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

Auerbach, Red

23.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

24.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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

27.

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

28.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

29.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

30.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

31.

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

Macdonald, George

32.

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

Ovid

33.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

40.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

42.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

43.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

44.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

47.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

48.

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

Robbins, Anthony

49.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement