Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about 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

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

10.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

11.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

12.

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

13.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

14.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

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

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

19.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

21.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

24.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

25.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

26.

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

27.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

28.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

29.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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.

31.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

32.

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

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The only way to start is to start.

34.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

39.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

40.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

41.

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

42.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.