Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bergson, Henri L.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Milea, Jinx

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Smiles, Samuel

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

10.

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

11.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

12.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

13.

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

14.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

15.

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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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.

17.

The only way to start is to start.

18.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

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.

20.

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

Batt, Al

21.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

22.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

23.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

24.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

25.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

27.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

34.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

35.

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

Liter, James

36.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

37.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

38.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

40.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Sher, Barbara

42.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

43.

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

44.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

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

Troward, Thomas

47.

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

James, William

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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