Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Robbins, Anthony

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

10.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

12.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

13.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

14.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

17.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

18.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

22.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

23.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

24.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lowenstein, John

30.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

33.

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

35.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

36.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

37.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

40.

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.

41.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

44.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

45.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

46.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

47.

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

Saying, Zen

48.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman