Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Company, Lanes

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bevan, Aneurin

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

11.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

12.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

15.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

16.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

17.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

19.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

21.

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

James, William

22.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

23.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

24.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

27.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

28.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

29.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

30.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

31.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

32.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

33.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

34.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

35.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

36.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

37.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

38.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

40.

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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

43.

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

Proverb, German

44.

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

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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

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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.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

48.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

49.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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.