Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ovid

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

Saying, Zen

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

10.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

12.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

13.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

14.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Buffett, Warren

18.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

19.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Proverb

22.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

23.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

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

25.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

26.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

27.

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

28.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

29.

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

30.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

31.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

32.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

33.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

34.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

35.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

36.

Act, don't react!

37.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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 secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

42.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

43.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

44.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

45.

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

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Aristotle

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin