Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Auerbach, Red

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Proverb, Italian

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Cass, Lewis

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

10.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

11.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

12.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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

James, William

15.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

16.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

20.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

21.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

22.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

23.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

24.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

25.

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

26.

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

Heine, Heinrich

28.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

29.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

30.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

32.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

33.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

34.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

35.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

36.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

37.

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

Mann, Horace

38.

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

James, William

39.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

40.

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

41.

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

42.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

43.

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

Milne, A. A.

44.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

45.

Action is character.

46.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

47.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Plutarch

49.

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

Ovid

50.

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