Motivational Quotes

Action

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

- Collingwood, Robin G.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

11.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

12.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

13.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

16.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

20.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

21.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

22.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

27.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Bible

29.

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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

Smiles, Samuel

32.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Proverb, English

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

45.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb

48.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.