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

1.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

2.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

3.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

4.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

5.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

8.

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

9.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

10.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

12.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

14.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

15.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

16.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

18.

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

Grant, Heber J.

19.

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.

20.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

21.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

22.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

23.

Action is character.

24.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

25.

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

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

28.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

29.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

30.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

31.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

32.

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

Auerbach, Red

33.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

James, William

36.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

39.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

42.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

43.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

46.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

47.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

48.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

49.

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

50.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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