Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

11.

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

12.

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.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

15.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

17.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

19.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

21.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

30.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

32.

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

33.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

34.

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

35.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

36.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

37.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

38.

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

39.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

44.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

45.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

46.

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

47.

Do it now. Then it's done.

48.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

49.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

50.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett