Motivational Quotes

Action

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do it now. Then it's done.

2.

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

Smith, Sydney

3.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

4.

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

Arendt, Hannah

5.

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.

6.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

7.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

8.

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

9.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

17.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

18.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

19.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

20.

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

21.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

22.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

23.

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

Smiles, Samuel

24.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

25.

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

Viscott, David

26.

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

Heine, Heinrich

27.

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

Grant, Heber J.

28.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

30.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

31.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

32.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

34.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

35.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

37.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

40.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

41.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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.

43.

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

Proverb, Italian

44.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

45.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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