Motivational Quotes

Action

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

- Eliot, Sir John

Best Quotes about Action

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

Eliot, George

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

South, Bishop Robert

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.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

16.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

20.

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

Smiles, Samuel

21.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

23.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

25.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

28.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

29.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

31.

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

Bible

32.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

33.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

34.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

35.

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

Carrel, Alexis

36.

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

37.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

42.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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

Auerbach, Red

49.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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