Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Hubbard, Kin

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

12.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

14.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

15.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

17.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

18.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

19.

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

20.

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

Gerstner, Lou

21.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

23.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

24.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

25.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Eliot, George

31.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

34.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

35.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

36.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

38.

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

Proverb, Ibo

39.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Gaulle, Charles De

44.

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

45.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

46.

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

Ovid

47.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

48.

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

49.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.