Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Action

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Einstein, Albert

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

10.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

Carrel, Alexis

12.

The only way to start is to start.

13.

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

Bowkett, Chris

14.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

15.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

16.

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

17.

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

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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

19.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

20.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

21.

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

Edwards, Edward

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

24.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

29.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

30.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

31.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

32.

Action is character.

33.

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

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

35.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

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

Hasselhoff, David

40.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

41.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

42.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

44.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

45.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

46.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

47.

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

Gerstner, Lou

48.

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

49.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

50.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.