Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Smith, Sydney

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

12.

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

13.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

16.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

18.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

21.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

33.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

36.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

38.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

39.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

43.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

44.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

48.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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