Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

10.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

12.

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

Proverb, Mexican

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

15.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

16.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

17.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

19.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

20.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

22.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

23.

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

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

27.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

28.

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

29.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

30.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Smith, Liz

33.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

Sher, Barbara

35.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

39.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

42.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

46.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.