Motivational Quotes

Action

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

- Cass, Lewis

Best Quotes about Action

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Ovid

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Einstein, Albert

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

14.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

16.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

17.

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

18.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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

Proverb, French

21.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

26.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

27.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

28.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

29.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

30.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

33.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

36.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

37.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

38.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

40.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

41.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

42.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

43.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

46.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

James, William

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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

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

50.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline