Motivational Quotes

Action

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

- Caddy, Eileen

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

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Proverb, Irish

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

10.

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.

11.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

12.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

13.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

14.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

16.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

17.

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

18.

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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

Auerbach, Red

22.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

23.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

24.

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

Edwards, Edward

25.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

26.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

27.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

30.

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

Gide, Andre

31.

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

Rogers, Will

32.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

37.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

38.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

39.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

40.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

42.

Do it now. Then it's done.

43.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

44.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

47.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

48.

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

Green, Dennis

49.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

50.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich