Motivational Quotes

Action

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

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

Smiles, Samuel

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Ovid

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

11.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

13.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

17.

Act, don't react!

18.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

19.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

20.

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

21.

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

Levi, Peter

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

23.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

26.

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

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

28.

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

Evans, Richard L.

29.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

30.

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

31.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

32.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

34.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Liter, James

36.

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

39.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

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

Holtz, Lou

41.

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

Ovid

42.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

43.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

44.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

48.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

49.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

50.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael