Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

11.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

12.

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

South, Bishop Robert

13.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Lord, Shirley

15.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

16.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

17.

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

18.

Do it now. Then it's done.

19.

Act, don't react!

20.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

26.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

29.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

30.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

31.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

33.

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

Croce, Benedetto

34.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

37.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Auerbach, Red

39.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

40.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

43.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

44.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

45.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

46.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

47.

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

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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

49.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Einstein, Albert