Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

12.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Pancoast, Mal

16.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

17.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

18.

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

19.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

20.

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.

21.

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.

22.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

23.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

24.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

25.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

26.

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

27.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

28.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

29.

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.

30.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

31.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

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

33.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

34.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

35.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

36.

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

Arendt, Hannah

37.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

39.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

40.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

41.

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

Proverb, Irish

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

45.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese