Motivational Quotes

Action

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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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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

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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

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

Ovid

17.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

18.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

22.

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

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

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

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

28.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

29.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

32.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

35.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

36.

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

Proverb

37.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

38.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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