Motivational Quotes

Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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 I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

10.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Smith, Liz

13.

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

14.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

16.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

17.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

18.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

19.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

21.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

22.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

The only way to start is to start.

24.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

25.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

26.

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

27.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

28.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

29.

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

30.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

32.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

33.

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

Macdonald, George

34.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

35.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

36.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

Auerbach, Red

38.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

39.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

43.

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

44.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

45.

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

46.

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

47.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

48.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

49.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

50.

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