Motivational Quotes

Action

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

- Edwards, Edward

Best Quotes about Action

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Heine, Heinrich

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Angelou, Maya

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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

Bible

12.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

13.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

14.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Auerbach, Red

17.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

18.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

19.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

20.

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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

23.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

25.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

Ziglar, Zig

29.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

31.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

35.

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

36.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

37.

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

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

45.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.